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Re: [PATCH] mac80211_hwsim: fix a possible memory leak in hwsim_new_radio_nl()

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cc  Ben Hutchings <ben.hutchings@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

On 2018/4/24 11:08, YueHaibing wrote:
> '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 <yuehaibing@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  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 96d26cf..4a017a0 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;
>  		}
>  
> 




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