Patch "iwlwifi: mvm: Free fw_status after use to avoid memory leak" has been added to the 4.0-stable tree
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This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
iwlwifi: mvm: Free fw_status after use to avoid memory leak
to the 4.0-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:
iwlwifi-mvm-free-fw_status-after-use-to-avoid-memory-leak.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.0 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.
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2fc863a5143d64b8f06576cc3d7fd5622c5cf3b5Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Haim Dreyfuss <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 20 May 2015 08:10:43 +0300
Subject: iwlwifi: mvm: Free fw_status after use to avoid memory leak
From: Haim Dreyfuss <[email protected]>
commit 2fc863a5143d64b8f06576cc3d7fd5622c5cf3b5 upstream.
fw_status is the only pointer pointing to a block of memory allocated above and should be freed after use.
Note: this come from Klockwork static analyzer.
--- drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/mvm/d3.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/mvm/d3.c +3 -1
@@ -1742,8 +1742,10 @@ static void iwl_mvm_query_netdetect_reasint i, j, n_matches, ret; fw_status =iwl_mvm_get_wakeup_status (mvm, vif); -if (!IS_ERR_OR_NULL (fw_status)) +if (!IS_ERR_OR_NULL (fw_status)) { reasons =le32_to_cpu (fw_status->wakeup_reasons); +kfree (fw_status); + }if (reasons &IWL_WOWLAN_WAKEUP_BY_RFKILL_DEASSERTED ) wakeup.rfkill_release = true;
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are
queue-4.0/iwlwifi-mvm-free-fw_status-after-use-to-avoid-memory-leak.patch