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 5.11-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-5.11 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> @@ -5401,7 +5401,7 @@ static int nl80211_start_ap(struct sk_bu rdev, info->attrs[NL80211_ATTR_UNSOL_BCAST_PROBE_RESP], ¶ms); if (err) - return err; + goto out; } nl80211_calculate_ap_params(¶ms); Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx are queue-5.11/iwlwifi-pcie-properly-set-ltr-workarounds-on-22000-devices.patch queue-5.11/mac80211-fix-txq-ac-confusion.patch queue-5.11/nl80211-fix-beacon-head-validation.patch queue-5.11/nl80211-fix-potential-leak-of-acl-params.patch queue-5.11/rfkill-revert-back-to-old-userspace-api-by-default.patch queue-5.11/cfg80211-check-s1g-beacon-compat-element-length.patch queue-5.11/mac80211-fix-time-is-after-bug-in-mlme.patch