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From: Zhengchao Shao <shaozhengchao@huawei.com>
To: <netdev@vger.kernel.org>, <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>,
	<johannes@sipsolutions.net>, <davem@davemloft.net>,
	<edumazet@google.com>, <kuba@kernel.org>, <pabeni@redhat.com>
Cc: <weiyongjun1@huawei.com>, <yuehaibing@huawei.com>,
	<shaozhengchao@huawei.com>
Subject: [PATCH] wifi: mac80211: fix memory leak in ieee80211_if_add()
Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2022 14:45:00 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20221117064500.319983-1-shaozhengchao@huawei.com> (raw)

When register_netdevice() failed in ieee80211_if_add(), ndev->tstats
isn't released. Fix it.

Fixes: 5a490510ba5f ("mac80211: use per-CPU TX/RX statistics")
Signed-off-by: Zhengchao Shao <shaozhengchao@huawei.com>
---
 net/mac80211/iface.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/net/mac80211/iface.c b/net/mac80211/iface.c
index dd9ac1f7d2ea..46f08ec5ed76 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/iface.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/iface.c
@@ -2258,6 +2258,7 @@ int ieee80211_if_add(struct ieee80211_local *local, const char *name,
 
 		ret = cfg80211_register_netdevice(ndev);
 		if (ret) {
+			ieee80211_if_free(ndev);
 			free_netdev(ndev);
 			return ret;
 		}
-- 
2.17.1


             reply	other threads:[~2022-11-17  6:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-11-17  6:45 Zhengchao Shao [this message]
2023-01-13  8:15 ` [PATCH] wifi: mac80211: fix memory leak in ieee80211_if_add() Eric Dumazet
2023-01-14  2:53   ` shaozhengchao

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