linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mac80211: fix memory leak

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Date:	Mon, 1 Feb 2016 11:03:35 +1100
From:	Julian Calaby <julian.calaby@...il.com>
To:	Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@...il.com>
Cc:	Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-wireless <linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org>,
	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mac80211: fix memory leak

Hi Sudip,

On Fri, Jan 29, 2016 at 8:49 PM, Sudip Mukherjee
<sudipm.mukherjee@...il.com> wrote:
> On error we jumped to the error label and returned the error code but we
> missed releasing sinfo.
>
> Signed-off-by: Sudip Mukherjee <sudip@...torindia.org>

Should the From: and Signed-off-by: email addresses be the same?

> ---
>  net/mac80211/sta_info.c | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>
> diff --git a/net/mac80211/sta_info.c b/net/mac80211/sta_info.c
> index 6c198e6..36e75c4 100644
> --- a/net/mac80211/sta_info.c
> +++ b/net/mac80211/sta_info.c
> @@ -561,6 +561,7 @@ static int sta_info_insert_finish(struct sta_info *sta) __acquires(RCU)
>         __cleanup_single_sta(sta);
>   out_err:
>         mutex_unlock(&local->sta_mtx);
> +       kfree(sinfo);
>         rcu_read_lock();
>         return err;
>  }

Looks sane to me. I must note that the bug this is fixing is only in
the mac80211-next tree.

Fixes: 5fe74014172d ("mac80211: avoid excessive stack usage in sta_info")
Reviewed-by: Julian Calaby <julian.calaby@...il.com>

Thanks,

-- 
Julian Calaby

Email: julian.calaby@...il.com
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