netdev - [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.5 24/67] nl80211: fix potential leak in AP start

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Message-Id: <20200305171309.29118-24-sashal@kernel.org>
Date:   Thu,  5 Mar 2020 12:12:25 -0500
From:   Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@...el.com>,
        Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>,
        linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.5 24/67] nl80211: fix potential leak in AP start

From: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@...el.com>

[ Upstream commit 9951ebfcdf2b97dbb28a5d930458424341e61aa2 ]

If nl80211_parse_he_obss_pd() fails, we leak the previously
allocated ACL memory. Free it in this case.

Fixes: 796e90f42b7e ("cfg80211: add support for parsing OBBS_PD attributes")
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@...el.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200221104142.835aba4cdd14.I1923b55ba9989c57e13978f91f40bfdc45e60cbd@changeid
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@...el.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
---
 net/wireless/nl80211.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/wireless/nl80211.c b/net/wireless/nl80211.c
index 1e97ac5435b23..6032f1cce9416 100644
--- a/net/wireless/nl80211.c
+++ b/net/wireless/nl80211.c
@@ -4799,8 +4799,7 @@ static int nl80211_start_ap(struct sk_buff *skb, struct genl_info *info)
 		err = nl80211_parse_he_obss_pd(
 					info->attrs[NL80211_ATTR_HE_OBSS_PD],
 					&params.he_obss_pd);
-		if (err)
-			return err;
+		goto out;
 	}
 
 	nl80211_calculate_ap_params(&params);
@@ -4822,6 +4821,7 @@ static int nl80211_start_ap(struct sk_buff *skb, struct genl_info *info)
 	}
 	wdev_unlock(wdev);
 
+out:
 	kfree(params.acl);
 
 	return err;
-- 
2.20.1