On 2023/1/13 16:15, Eric Dumazet wrote:
On 11/17/22 07:45, Zhengchao Shao wrote:
When register_netdevice() failed in ieee80211_if_add(), ndev->tstats
isn't released. Fix it.
Fixes: 5a490510ba5f ("mac80211: use per-CPU TX/RX statistics")
Signed-off-by: Zhengchao Shao <shaozhengchao@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
net/mac80211/iface.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff --git a/net/mac80211/iface.c b/net/mac80211/iface.c
index dd9ac1f7d2ea..46f08ec5ed76 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/iface.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/iface.c
@@ -2258,6 +2258,7 @@ int ieee80211_if_add(struct ieee80211_local
*local, const char *name,
ret = cfg80211_register_netdevice(ndev);
if (ret) {
+ ieee80211_if_free(ndev);
free_netdev(ndev);
return ret;
}
Note: I will send a revert of this buggy patch, this was adding a double
free.
Hi Eric:
Thank you very much for pointing out my problem. I'll be more
rigorous in the future.
Zhengchao Shao