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Re: [PATCH v2] wifi: mac80211: fix memory leak in ieee80211_register_hw()

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On Fri, 2022-12-02 at 12:38 +0800, Zhengchao Shao wrote:
> 
> --- a/net/mac80211/main.c
> +++ b/net/mac80211/main.c
> @@ -1326,6 +1326,7 @@ int ieee80211_register_hw(struct ieee80211_hw *hw)
>  					      hw->rate_control_algorithm);
>  	rtnl_unlock();
>  	if (result < 0) {
> +		ieee80211_txq_teardown_flows(local);
>  		wiphy_debug(local->hw.wiphy,
>  			    "Failed to initialize rate control algorithm\n");
>  		goto fail_rate;
> @@ -1364,6 +1365,7 @@ int ieee80211_register_hw(struct ieee80211_hw *hw)
>  
>  		sband = kmemdup(sband, sizeof(*sband), GFP_KERNEL);
>  		if (!sband) {
> +			ieee80211_txq_teardown_flows(local);
>  			result = -ENOMEM;
>  			goto fail_rate;
>  		}

I don't understand - we have a fail_rate label here where we free
everything.

What if we get to fail_wiphy_register, don't we leak it in the same way?

johannes




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