Commit 4f488fbc authored Jun 10, 2019 by Eric Biggers Committed by Johannes Berg Jun 14, 2019

cfg80211: fix memory leak of wiphy device name



In wiphy_new_nm(), if an error occurs after dev_set_name() and
device_initialize() have already been called, it's necessary to call
put_device() (via wiphy_free()) to avoid a memory leak.

Reported-by:  <syzbot+7fddca22578bc67c3fe4@syzkaller.appspotmail.com>
Fixes: 1f87f7d3 ("cfg80211: add rfkill support")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>

parent 1a473d60

net/wireless/core.c

+1 −1

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -513,7 +513,7 @@ use_default_name:
		&rdev->rfkill_ops, rdev);

		if (!rdev->rfkill) {
		kfree(rdev);
		wiphy_free(&rdev->wiphy);
		return NULL;
		}

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