From b4e4f47e940bc93c5b1125a4429ff53956754800 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Wei Yongjun Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2012 21:41:04 +0800 Subject: nl80211: fix possible memory leak nl80211_connect() connkeys is malloced in nl80211_parse_connkeys() and should be freed in the error handling case, otherwise it will cause memory leak. spatch with a semantic match is used to found this problem. (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/) Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg --- net/wireless/nl80211.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'net/wireless') diff --git a/net/wireless/nl80211.c b/net/wireless/nl80211.c index 97026f3b215..1e37dbf00cb 100644 --- a/net/wireless/nl80211.c +++ b/net/wireless/nl80211.c @@ -5633,8 +5633,10 @@ static int nl80211_connect(struct sk_buff *skb, struct genl_info *info) sizeof(connect.ht_capa_mask)); if (info->attrs[NL80211_ATTR_HT_CAPABILITY]) { - if (!info->attrs[NL80211_ATTR_HT_CAPABILITY_MASK]) + if (!info->attrs[NL80211_ATTR_HT_CAPABILITY_MASK]) { + kfree(connkeys); return -EINVAL; + } memcpy(&connect.ht_capa, nla_data(info->attrs[NL80211_ATTR_HT_CAPABILITY]), sizeof(connect.ht_capa)); -- cgit v1.2.3