Patch "brcmfmac: Fix a memory leak in error handling path in 'brcmf_cfg80211_attach'" has been added to the 4.9-stable tree
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This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
brcmfmac: Fix a memory leak in error handling path in 'brcmf_cfg80211_attach'
to the 4.9-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:
brcmfmac-fix-a-memory-leak-in-error-handling-path-in-brcmf_cfg80211_attach.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.9 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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57c00f2fac512837f8de73474ec1f54020015baeMon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Christophe Jaillet <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2017 07:45:53 +0200
Subject: brcmfmac: Fix a memory leak in error handling path in 'brcmf_cfg80211_attach'
From: Christophe Jaillet <[email protected]>
commit 57c00f2fac512837f8de73474ec1f54020015bae upstream.
If 'wiphy_new()' fails, we leak 'ops'. Add a new label in the error handling path to free it in such a case.
--- drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/cfg80211.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/cfg80211.c +2 -1
@@ -6876,7 +6876,7 @@ struct brcmf_cfg80211_info *brcmf_cfg802 wiphy =wiphy_new (ops,sizeof (struct brcmf_cfg80211_info ));if (!wiphy) {brcmf_err ("Could not allocate wiphy device\n" ); -return NULL ; + goto ops_out; }memcpy (wiphy->perm_addr, drvr->mac,ETH_ALEN );set_wiphy_dev (wiphy, busdev);
@@ -7010,6 +7010,7 @@ priv_out: ifp->vif =NULL ; wiphy_out:brcmf_free_wiphy (wiphy); +ops_out:kfree (ops);return NULL ; }
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are
queue-4.9/brcmfmac-fix-a-memory-leak-in-error-handling-path-in-brcmf_cfg80211_attach.patch