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| author | Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> | 2016-04-26 13:47:08 +0200 |
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| committer | Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> | 2016-04-27 10:06:58 +0200 |
| commit | e6436be21e77e3659b4ff7e357ab5a8342d132d2 (patch) | |
| tree | ebe51f19da789d00e5015d6d952110b74456006b /net/mac80211/iface.c | |
| parent | nl80211: check netlink protocol in socket release notification (diff) | |
| download | linux-e6436be21e77e3659b4ff7e357ab5a8342d132d2.tar.xz linux-e6436be21e77e3659b4ff7e357ab5a8342d132d2.zip | |
mac80211: fix statistics leak if dev_alloc_name() fails
In the case that dev_alloc_name() fails, e.g. because the name was
given by the user and already exists, we need to clean up properly
and free the per-CPU statistics. Fix that.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 5a490510ba5f ("mac80211: use per-CPU TX/RX statistics")
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/mac80211/iface.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | net/mac80211/iface.c | 4 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/net/mac80211/iface.c b/net/mac80211/iface.c index 453b4e741780..e1cb22c16530 100644 --- a/net/mac80211/iface.c +++ b/net/mac80211/iface.c @@ -1761,7 +1761,7 @@ int ieee80211_if_add(struct ieee80211_local *local, const char *name, ret = dev_alloc_name(ndev, ndev->name); if (ret < 0) { - free_netdev(ndev); + ieee80211_if_free(ndev); return ret; } @@ -1847,7 +1847,7 @@ int ieee80211_if_add(struct ieee80211_local *local, const char *name, ret = register_netdevice(ndev); if (ret) { - free_netdev(ndev); + ieee80211_if_free(ndev); return ret; } } |