From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752328AbcKIDhk (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Nov 2016 22:37:40 -0500 Received: from mail-pf0-f173.google.com ([209.85.192.173]:34541 "EHLO mail-pf0-f173.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751615AbcKIDhh (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Nov 2016 22:37:37 -0500 From: Ricky Liang Cc: Ricky Liang , Amitkumar Karwar , Nishant Sarmukadam , Kalle Valo , linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org (open list:MARVELL MWIFIEX WIRELESS DRIVER), netdev@vger.kernel.org (open list:NETWORKING DRIVERS), linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org (open list) Subject: [PATCH] mwifiex: fix memory leak in mwifiex_save_hidden_ssid_channels() Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2016 11:37:28 +0800 Message-Id: <1478662648-70698-1-git-send-email-jcliang@chromium.org> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.6.6 To: unlisted-recipients:; (no To-header on input) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org kmemleak reports memory leak in mwifiex_save_hidden_ssid_channels(): unreferenced object 0xffffffc0a2914780 (size 192): comm "ksdioirqd/mmc2", pid 2004, jiffies 4307182506 (age 820.684s) hex dump (first 32 bytes): 00 06 47 49 4e 2d 32 67 01 03 c8 60 6c 03 01 40 ..GIN-2g...`l..@ 07 10 54 57 20 34 04 1e 64 05 24 84 03 24 95 04 ..TW 4..d.$..$.. backtrace: [] create_object+0x164/0x2b4 [] kmemleak_alloc+0x50/0x88 [] __kmalloc_track_caller+0x1bc/0x264 [] kmemdup+0x38/0x64 [] mwifiex_fill_new_bss_desc+0x3c/0x130 [mwifiex] [] mwifiex_save_curr_bcn+0x4ec/0x640 [mwifiex] [] mwifiex_handle_event_ext_scan_report+0x1d4/0x268 [mwifiex] [] mwifiex_process_sta_event+0x378/0x898 [mwifiex] [] mwifiex_process_event+0x1a8/0x1e8 [mwifiex] [] mwifiex_main_process+0x258/0x534 [mwifiex] [] 0xffffffbffc258858 [] process_sdio_pending_irqs+0xf8/0x160 [] sdio_irq_thread+0x9c/0x1a4 [] kthread+0xf4/0x100 [] ret_from_fork+0xc/0x50 [] 0xffffffffffffffff Signed-off-by: Ricky Liang --- drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/scan.c | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/scan.c b/drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/scan.c index 97c9765..98ce072 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/scan.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/scan.c @@ -1671,6 +1671,10 @@ static int mwifiex_save_hidden_ssid_channels(struct mwifiex_private *priv, } done: + /* beacon_ie buffer was allocated in function + * mwifiex_fill_new_bss_desc(). Free it now. + */ + kfree(bss_desc->beacon_buf); kfree(bss_desc); return 0; } -- 2.6.6