From: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx> If, for some strange reason, ieee80211_wep_encrypt() fails in ieee80211_send_auth() free the SKB instead of sending out the useless frame, in addition to the warning. This can't really happen since the SKB was freshly allocated. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Luca Coelho <luciano.coelho@xxxxxxxxx> --- net/mac80211/util.c | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/net/mac80211/util.c b/net/mac80211/util.c index a0ff27487686..0f6fd90f6696 100644 --- a/net/mac80211/util.c +++ b/net/mac80211/util.c @@ -1693,7 +1693,10 @@ void ieee80211_send_auth(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata, if (auth_alg == WLAN_AUTH_SHARED_KEY && transaction == 3) { mgmt->frame_control |= cpu_to_le16(IEEE80211_FCTL_PROTECTED); err = ieee80211_wep_encrypt(local, skb, key, key_len, key_idx); - WARN_ON(err); + if (WARN_ON(err)) { + kfree_skb(skb); + return; + } } IEEE80211_SKB_CB(skb)->flags |= IEEE80211_TX_INTFL_DONT_ENCRYPT | -- 2.32.0