linux-kernel - [PATCH] cfg80211: Fix a memory leak in error handling path in 'brcmf_cfg80211

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Message-Id: <20170620062205.16078-1-christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr>
Date:   Tue, 20 Jun 2017 08:22:05 +0200
From:   Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@...adoo.fr>
To:     arend.vanspriel@...adcom.com, franky.lin@...adcom.com,
        hante.meuleman@...adcom.com, kvalo@...eaurora.org,
        rafal@...ecki.pl, pieter-paul.giesberts@...adcom.com
Cc:     linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org,
        brcm80211-dev-list.pdl@...adcom.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org,
        Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@...adoo.fr>
Subject: [PATCH] cfg80211: Fix a memory leak in error handling path in 'brcmf_cfg80211_attach'

If 'wiphy_new()' fails, we leak 'ops'. Add a new label in the error
handling path to free it in such a case.

Fixes: 5c22fb85102a7 ("brcmfmac: add wowl gtk rekeying offload support")
Signed-off-by: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@...adoo.fr>
---
 drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/cfg80211.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/cfg80211.c b/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/cfg80211.c
index 2443c71a202f..032d823c53c2 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/cfg80211.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/cfg80211.c
@@ -6861,7 +6861,7 @@ struct brcmf_cfg80211_info *brcmf_cfg80211_attach(struct brcmf_pub *drvr,
 	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);
@@ -7012,6 +7012,7 @@ struct brcmf_cfg80211_info *brcmf_cfg80211_attach(struct brcmf_pub *drvr,
 	ifp->vif = NULL;
 wiphy_out:
 	brcmf_free_wiphy(wiphy);
+ops_out:
 	kfree(ops);
 	return NULL;
 }
-- 
2.11.0