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Re: [PATCH V2] cfg80211: Fix possible memory leak in function cfg80211_bss_update

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Greg KH <greg@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

> On Mon, Jun 28, 2021 at 09:23:34PM +0800, Nguyen Dinh Phi wrote:
>> When we exceed the limit of BSS entries, this function will free the
>> new entry, however, at this time, it is the last door to access the
>> inputed ies, so these ies will be unreferenced objects and cause memory
>> leak.
>> Therefore we should free its ies before deallocating the new entry, beside
>> of dropping it from hidden_list.
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Nguyen Dinh Phi <phind.uet@xxxxxxxxx>

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> Did this change get lost somewhere?

Johannes applied it to the macc80211 tree:

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jberg/mac80211.git/commit/?id=f9a5c358c8d26fed0cc45f2afc64633d4ba21dff

Ah, and it's already in Linus' tree as well.

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