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Re: 4.18.16: memory leak in sta_set_sinfo

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On Mon, 2018-10-22 at 10:02 +0200, Johannes Stezenbach wrote:
> 
>     [<00000000b7b13d1a>] sta_set_sinfo+0x634/0x900 [mac80211]
>     [<00000000a74db622>] ieee80211_get_station+0x50/0x70 [mac80211]
>     [<000000009fd8a7aa>] cfg80211_wext_giwrate+0x111/0x2b0 [cfg80211]

> I guess it relates to
> 0fdf1493b41 " mac80211: allocate and fill tidstats only when needed"
> which Fixes: 8689c051a201 ("cfg80211: dynamically allocate per-tid stats for station info")

Yes, you're using wext which we don't any more, so we didn't see this.

However, it's already fixed:

commit 848e616e66d4592fe9afc40743d3504deb7632b4
Author: Stefan Seyfried <seife+kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date:   Sun Sep 30 12:53:00 2018 +0200

    cfg80211: fix wext-compat memory leak

Hopefully that'll eventually propagate to stable.

johannes




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