This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled wifi: cfg80211: fix memory leak in query_regdb_file() to the 6.0-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: wifi-cfg80211-fix-memory-leak-in-query_regdb_file.patch and it can be found in the queue-6.0 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit f3f6d5d606cd14a658be1c59443cbdf33e1c950d Author: Arend van Spriel <arend.vanspriel@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu Oct 20 13:40:40 2022 +0200 wifi: cfg80211: fix memory leak in query_regdb_file() [ Upstream commit 57b962e627ec0ae53d4d16d7bd1033e27e67677a ] In the function query_regdb_file() the alpha2 parameter is duplicated using kmemdup() and subsequently freed in regdb_fw_cb(). However, request_firmware_nowait() can fail without calling regdb_fw_cb() and thus leak memory. Fixes: 007f6c5e6eb4 ("cfg80211: support loading regulatory database as firmware file") Signed-off-by: Arend van Spriel <arend.vanspriel@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/net/wireless/reg.c b/net/wireless/reg.c index d5c7a5aa6853..c3d950d29432 100644 --- a/net/wireless/reg.c +++ b/net/wireless/reg.c @@ -1084,6 +1084,8 @@ MODULE_FIRMWARE("regulatory.db"); static int query_regdb_file(const char *alpha2) { + int err; + ASSERT_RTNL(); if (regdb) @@ -1093,9 +1095,13 @@ static int query_regdb_file(const char *alpha2) if (!alpha2) return -ENOMEM; - return request_firmware_nowait(THIS_MODULE, true, "regulatory.db", - ®_pdev->dev, GFP_KERNEL, - (void *)alpha2, regdb_fw_cb); + err = request_firmware_nowait(THIS_MODULE, true, "regulatory.db", + ®_pdev->dev, GFP_KERNEL, + (void *)alpha2, regdb_fw_cb); + if (err) + kfree(alpha2); + + return err; } int reg_reload_regdb(void)