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 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-mac80211-fix-memory-free-error-when-registering.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 8734023d45fb645d160683a1fd4fb05e09e2bbd5
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 5b1c47ed0cc0..87e24bba4c67 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/main.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/main.c
@@ -1437,8 +1437,10 @@ 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;
}
@@ -1506,8 +1508,10 @@ 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);
