The patch titled
NET: mac80211: fix inappropriate memory freeing
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
net-mac80211-fix-inappropriate-memory-freeing.patch
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Subject: NET: mac80211: fix inappropriate memory freeing
From: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@xxxxxxxxx>
Fix inappropriate memory freeing in case of requested rate_control_ops was
not found. In this case the list head entity is going to be accidentally
wasted.
Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@xxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Michael Wu <flamingice@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
net/mac80211/ieee80211_rate.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff -puN net/mac80211/ieee80211_rate.c~net-mac80211-fix-inappropriate-memory-freeing net/mac80211/ieee80211_rate.c
--- a/net/mac80211/ieee80211_rate.c~net-mac80211-fix-inappropriate-memory-freeing
+++ a/net/mac80211/ieee80211_rate.c
@@ -59,11 +59,11 @@ void ieee80211_rate_control_unregister(s
list_for_each_entry(alg, &rate_ctrl_algs, list) {
if (alg->ops == ops) {
list_del(&alg->list);
+ kfree(alg);
break;
}
}
mutex_unlock(&rate_ctrl_mutex);
- kfree(alg);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(ieee80211_rate_control_unregister);
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from gorcunov@xxxxxxxxx are
origin.patch
ppc-fix-missed-increment-on-device-interface-counter.patch
ppc-chrp-fix-possible-null-pointer-dereference.patch
ppc-chrp-fix-possible-null-pointer-dereference-checkpatch-fixes.patch
git-sparc64.patch
net-mac80211-fix-inappropriate-memory-freeing.patch
git-x86.patch
ieee80211_rate-missed-unlock.patch
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