From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , stable@vger.kernel.org, Ujjal Roy , Bing Zhao , "John W. Linville" Subject: [PATCH 3.10 43/78] mwifiex: fix memory leak issue for ibss join Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2013 13:11:11 -0800 Message-Id: <20131218211113.118915095@linuxfoundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20131218211111.903835960@linuxfoundation.org> References: <20131218211111.903835960@linuxfoundation.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 3.10-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Ujjal Roy commit 517543fd72d577dde2ebd9505dc4abf26d589f9a upstream. For IBSS join if the requested SSID matches current SSID, it returns without freeing the allocated beacon IE buffer. Signed-off-by: Ujjal Roy Signed-off-by: Bing Zhao Signed-off-by: John W. Linville Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/sta_ioctl.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/sta_ioctl.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/sta_ioctl.c @@ -309,8 +309,8 @@ int mwifiex_bss_start(struct mwifiex_pri if (bss_desc && bss_desc->ssid.ssid_len && (!mwifiex_ssid_cmp(&priv->curr_bss_params.bss_descriptor. ssid, &bss_desc->ssid))) { - kfree(bss_desc); - return 0; + ret = 0; + goto done; } /* Exit Adhoc mode first */