From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752755AbdLBPxe (ORCPT ); Sat, 2 Dec 2017 10:53:34 -0500 Received: from fldsmtpe03.verizon.com ([140.108.26.142]:24424 "EHLO fldsmtpe03.verizon.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752701AbdLBPxa (ORCPT ); Sat, 2 Dec 2017 10:53:30 -0500 From: alexander.levin@verizon.com Cc: Ben Hutchings , Johannes Berg , alexander.levin@verizon.com X-Host: endeavour.tdc.vzwcorp.com To: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "stable@vger.kernel.org" Subject: [PATCH AUTOSEL for 4.9 05/33] mac80211_hwsim: Fix memory leak in hwsim_new_radio_nl() Thread-Topic: [PATCH AUTOSEL for 4.9 05/33] mac80211_hwsim: Fix memory leak in hwsim_new_radio_nl() Thread-Index: AQHTa4WG6A8rH/zww0ivcFKuutfO3g== Date: Sat, 2 Dec 2017 15:52:15 +0000 Message-ID: <20171202155204.7691-5-alexander.levin@verizon.com> References: <20171202155204.7691-1-alexander.levin@verizon.com> In-Reply-To: <20171202155204.7691-1-alexander.levin@verizon.com> Accept-Language: en-US Content-Language: en-US X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: x-ms-exchange-messagesentrepresentingtype: 1 x-ms-exchange-transport-fromentityheader: Hosted x-originating-ip: [10.144.60.250] Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by nfs id vB2G92iN024505 From: Ben Hutchings [ Upstream commit 67bd52386125ce1159c0581cbcd2740addf33cd4 ] hwsim_new_radio_nl() now copies the name attribute in order to add a null-terminator. mac80211_hwsim_new_radio() (indirectly) copies it again into the net_device structure, so the first copy is not used or freed later. Free the first copy before returning. Fixes: ff4dd73dd2b4 ("mac80211_hwsim: check HWSIM_ATTR_RADIO_NAME length") Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin --- drivers/net/wireless/mac80211_hwsim.c | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/mac80211_hwsim.c b/drivers/net/wireless/mac80211_hwsim.c index d2a28a9d3209..4b462dc21c41 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/mac80211_hwsim.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/mac80211_hwsim.c @@ -3047,6 +3047,7 @@ static int hwsim_new_radio_nl(struct sk_buff *msg, struct genl_info *info) { struct hwsim_new_radio_params param = { 0 }; const char *hwname = NULL; + int ret; param.reg_strict = info->attrs[HWSIM_ATTR_REG_STRICT_REG]; param.p2p_device = info->attrs[HWSIM_ATTR_SUPPORT_P2P_DEVICE]; @@ -3086,7 +3087,9 @@ static int hwsim_new_radio_nl(struct sk_buff *msg, struct genl_info *info) param.regd = hwsim_world_regdom_custom[idx]; } - return mac80211_hwsim_new_radio(info, ¶m); + ret = mac80211_hwsim_new_radio(info, ¶m); + kfree(hwname); + return ret; } static int hwsim_del_radio_nl(struct sk_buff *msg, struct genl_info *info) -- 2.11.0