This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
wifi: mac80211: fix memory free error when registering wiphy fail
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:
wifi-mac80211-fix-memory-free-error-when-registering.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.
commit 3c25ae919ffe9422d9a3a8d7980365650713340c
Author: taozhang <taozhang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat Oct 15 17:38:31 2022 +0800
wifi: mac80211: fix memory free error when registering wiphy fail
[ Upstream commit 50b2e8711462409cd368c41067405aa446dfa2af ]
ieee80211_register_hw free the allocated cipher suites when
registering wiphy fail, and ieee80211_free_hw will re-free it.
set wiphy_ciphers_allocated to false after freeing allocated
cipher suites.
Signed-off-by: taozhang <taozhang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/net/mac80211/main.c b/net/mac80211/main.c
index 73893025922f..ae90ac3be59a 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/main.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/main.c
@@ -1349,8 +1349,10 @@ int ieee80211_register_hw(struct ieee80211_hw *hw)
ieee80211_led_exit(local);
destroy_workqueue(local->workqueue);
fail_workqueue:
- if (local->wiphy_ciphers_allocated)
+ if (local->wiphy_ciphers_allocated) {
kfree(local->hw.wiphy->cipher_suites);
+ local->wiphy_ciphers_allocated = false;
+ }
kfree(local->int_scan_req);
return result;
}
@@ -1420,8 +1422,10 @@ void ieee80211_free_hw(struct ieee80211_hw *hw)
mutex_destroy(&local->iflist_mtx);
mutex_destroy(&local->mtx);
- if (local->wiphy_ciphers_allocated)
+ if (local->wiphy_ciphers_allocated) {
kfree(local->hw.wiphy->cipher_suites);
+ local->wiphy_ciphers_allocated = false;
+ }
idr_for_each(&local->ack_status_frames,
ieee80211_free_ack_frame, NULL);
