From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: YueHaibing Subject: [PATCH] mac80211_hwsim: fix a possible memory leak in hwsim_new_radio_nl() Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2018 11:08:35 +0800 Message-ID: <20180424030835.21776-1-yuehaibing@huawei.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Cc: , , , YueHaibing To: Return-path: Sender: linux-wireless-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org 'hwname' should be freed before leaving from the error handling cases, otherwise it will cause mem leak Fixes: cb1a5bae5684 ("mac80211_hwsim: add permanent mac address option for new radios") Signed-off-by: YueHaibing --- drivers/net/wireless/mac80211_hwsim.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/mac80211_hwsim.c b/drivers/net/wireless/mac80211_hwsim.c index 96d26cf..4a017a0 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/mac80211_hwsim.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/mac80211_hwsim.c @@ -3236,6 +3236,7 @@ static int hwsim_new_radio_nl(struct sk_buff *msg, struct genl_info *info) GENL_SET_ERR_MSG(info,"MAC is no valid source addr"); NL_SET_BAD_ATTR(info->extack, info->attrs[HWSIM_ATTR_PERM_ADDR]); + kfree(hwname); return -EINVAL; } -- 2.7.0