Patch "mac80211: fix statistics leak if dev_alloc_name() fails" has been added to the 4.5-stable tree

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

mac80211: fix statistics leak if dev_alloc_name() fails

to the 4.5-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
mac80211-fix-statistics-leak-if-dev_alloc_name-fails.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.5 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.

From: Johannes Berg <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2016 13:47:08 +0200
Subject: mac80211: fix statistics leak if dev_alloc_name() fails

From: Johannes Berg <[email protected]>

commit e6436be21e77e3659b4ff7e357ab5a8342d132d2 upstream.

In the case that dev_alloc_name() fails, e.g. because the name was given by the user and already exists, we need to clean up properly and free the per-CPU statistics. Fix that.

---
 net/mac80211/iface.c |    4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

@@ -1750,7 +1750,7 @@ int ieee80211_if_add(struct ieee80211_lo
 
 		ret = dev_alloc_name(ndev, ndev->name);
 		if (ret < 0) {
-			free_netdev(ndev);
+			ieee80211_if_free(ndev);
 			return ret;
 		}
 

@@ -1836,7 +1836,7 @@ int ieee80211_if_add(struct ieee80211_lo
 
 		ret = register_netdevice(ndev);
 		if (ret) {
-			free_netdev(ndev);
+			ieee80211_if_free(ndev);
 			return ret;
 		}
 	}

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-4.5/mac80211-fix-statistics-leak-if-dev_alloc_name-fails.patch