Patch "nl80211: fix potential leak of ACL params" has been added to the 5.10-stable tree

[<gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    nl80211: fix potential leak of ACL params

to the 5.10-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:
     nl80211-fix-potential-leak-of-acl-params.patch
and it can be found in the queue-5.10 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.


>From abaf94ecc9c356d0b885a84edef4905cdd89cfdd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2021 14:28:34 +0200
Subject: nl80211: fix potential leak of ACL params

From: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx>

commit abaf94ecc9c356d0b885a84edef4905cdd89cfdd upstream.

In case nl80211_parse_unsol_bcast_probe_resp() results in an
error, need to "goto out" instead of just returning to free
possibly allocated data.

Fixes: 7443dcd1f171 ("nl80211: Unsolicited broadcast probe response support")
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210408142833.d8bc2e2e454a.If290b1ba85789726a671ff0b237726d4851b5b0f@changeid
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 net/wireless/nl80211.c |    4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/net/wireless/nl80211.c
+++ b/net/wireless/nl80211.c
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
  * Copyright 2006-2010	Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  * Copyright 2013-2014  Intel Mobile Communications GmbH
  * Copyright 2015-2017	Intel Deutschland GmbH
- * Copyright (C) 2018-2020 Intel Corporation
+ * Copyright (C) 2018-2021 Intel Corporation
  */
 
 #include <linux/if.h>
@@ -5324,7 +5324,7 @@ static int nl80211_start_ap(struct sk_bu
 			rdev, info->attrs[NL80211_ATTR_UNSOL_BCAST_PROBE_RESP],
 			&params);
 		if (err)
-			return err;
+			goto out;
 	}
 
 	nl80211_calculate_ap_params(&params);


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx are

queue-5.10/iwlwifi-pcie-properly-set-ltr-workarounds-on-22000-devices.patch
queue-5.10/mac80211-fix-txq-ac-confusion.patch
queue-5.10/nl80211-fix-beacon-head-validation.patch
queue-5.10/nl80211-fix-potential-leak-of-acl-params.patch
queue-5.10/cfg80211-check-s1g-beacon-compat-element-length.patch
queue-5.10/mac80211-fix-time-is-after-bug-in-mlme.patch