This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
mt76: mt7915: fix possible memory leak in mt7915_mcu_add_beacon
to the 5.9-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
mt76-mt7915-fix-possible-memory-leak-in-mt7915_mcu_a.patch
and it can be found in the queue-5.9 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit 8b49f71e05240ab07f6f90d88db8eda3614afc31
Author: Lorenzo Bianconi <lorenzo@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon Sep 14 20:29:01 2020 +0200
mt76: mt7915: fix possible memory leak in mt7915_mcu_add_beacon
[ Upstream commit 071c8ce8e92a86b8bf78678e78eb4b79fdc16768 ]
Release mcu message memory in case of failure in mt7915_mcu_add_beacon
routine
Fixes: e57b7901469fc ("mt76: add mac80211 driver for MT7915 PCIe-based chipsets")
Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Bianconi <lorenzo@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@xxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/mt7915/mcu.c b/drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/mt7915/mcu.c
index eaed5ef054016..bfd87974a5796 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/mt7915/mcu.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/mt7915/mcu.c
@@ -2335,14 +2335,6 @@ int mt7915_mcu_add_beacon(struct ieee80211_hw *hw,
struct bss_info_bcn *bcn;
int len = MT7915_BEACON_UPDATE_SIZE + MAX_BEACON_SIZE;
- rskb = mt7915_mcu_alloc_sta_req(dev, mvif, NULL, len);
- if (IS_ERR(rskb))
- return PTR_ERR(rskb);
-
- tlv = mt7915_mcu_add_tlv(rskb, BSS_INFO_OFFLOAD, sizeof(*bcn));
- bcn = (struct bss_info_bcn *)tlv;
- bcn->enable = en;
-
skb = ieee80211_beacon_get_template(hw, vif, &offs);
if (!skb)
return -EINVAL;
@@ -2353,6 +2345,16 @@ int mt7915_mcu_add_beacon(struct ieee80211_hw *hw,
return -EINVAL;
}
+ rskb = mt7915_mcu_alloc_sta_req(dev, mvif, NULL, len);
+ if (IS_ERR(rskb)) {
+ dev_kfree_skb(skb);
+ return PTR_ERR(rskb);
+ }
+
+ tlv = mt7915_mcu_add_tlv(rskb, BSS_INFO_OFFLOAD, sizeof(*bcn));
+ bcn = (struct bss_info_bcn *)tlv;
+ bcn->enable = en;
+
if (mvif->band_idx) {
info = IEEE80211_SKB_CB(skb);
info->hw_queue |= MT_TX_HW_QUEUE_EXT_PHY;
