netdev - Re: [PATCH] nl80211: Fix possible leak in nl80211_new_interface on MONITOR_FLAG

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Date:	Tue, 24 Feb 2015 10:58:12 +0100
From:	Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
To:	Christian Engelmayer <cengelma@....at>
Cc:	davem@...emloft.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] nl80211: Fix possible leak in nl80211_new_interface on
 MONITOR_FLAG_ACTIVE

On Sat, 2015-02-14 at 20:52 +0100, Christian Engelmayer wrote:
> In case of NL80211_IFTYPE_MONITOR and flag MONITOR_FLAG_ACTIVE, the already
> allocated sk_buff 'msg' is not freed, when the function exits in case the
> feature is not supported. Detected by Coverity CID 1269116.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Christian Engelmayer <cengelma@....at>
> ---
> Compile tested only. Applies against linux-next.

Thanks for the report. I've fixed this in a different way.

johannes

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