From e8f90c74e6ab64824f3a21521640de7b21050b9d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: YueHaibing Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2018 11:08:35 +0800 Subject: [PATCH] mac80211_hwsim: fix a possible memory leak in hwsim_new_radio_nl() 'hwname' should be freed before leaving from the error handling cases, otherwise it will cause mem leak Fixes: cb1a5bae5684 ("mac80211_hwsim: add permanent mac address option for new radios") Signed-off-by: YueHaibing Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg --- drivers/net/wireless/mac80211_hwsim.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/mac80211_hwsim.c b/drivers/net/wireless/mac80211_hwsim.c index 96d26cfae90b..4a017a0d71ea 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/mac80211_hwsim.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/mac80211_hwsim.c @@ -3236,6 +3236,7 @@ static int hwsim_new_radio_nl(struct sk_buff *msg, struct genl_info *info) GENL_SET_ERR_MSG(info,"MAC is no valid source addr"); NL_SET_BAD_ATTR(info->extack, info->attrs[HWSIM_ATTR_PERM_ADDR]); + kfree(hwname); return -EINVAL; }