This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
wifi: iwlwifi: mvm: fix ptk_pn memory leak
to the 6.1-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-iwlwifi-mvm-fix-ptk_pn-memory-leak.patch
and it can be found in the queue-6.1 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit cf6ea0d3cda383190e63bc9a9a494129f6dddafc
Author: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri Apr 14 13:12:02 2023 +0300
wifi: iwlwifi: mvm: fix ptk_pn memory leak
[ Upstream commit d066a530af8e1833c7ea2cef7784004700c85f79 ]
If adding a key to firmware fails we leak the allocated ptk_pn.
This shouldn't happen in practice, but we should still fix it.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Gregory Greenman <gregory.greenman@xxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230414130637.99446ffd02bc.I82a2ad6ec1395f188e0a1677cc619e3fcb1feac9@changeid
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/mvm/mac80211.c b/drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/mvm/mac80211.c
index a841268e0709f..801098c5183b6 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/mvm/mac80211.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/mvm/mac80211.c
@@ -3445,7 +3445,7 @@ static int __iwl_mvm_mac_set_key(struct ieee80211_hw *hw,
struct iwl_mvm_vif *mvmvif = iwl_mvm_vif_from_mac80211(vif);
struct iwl_mvm *mvm = IWL_MAC80211_GET_MVM(hw);
struct iwl_mvm_sta *mvmsta = NULL;
- struct iwl_mvm_key_pn *ptk_pn;
+ struct iwl_mvm_key_pn *ptk_pn = NULL;
int keyidx = key->keyidx;
int ret, i;
u8 key_offset;
@@ -3590,6 +3590,10 @@ static int __iwl_mvm_mac_set_key(struct ieee80211_hw *hw,
if (ret) {
IWL_WARN(mvm, "set key failed\n");
key->hw_key_idx = STA_KEY_IDX_INVALID;
+ if (ptk_pn) {
+ RCU_INIT_POINTER(mvmsta->ptk_pn[keyidx], NULL);
+ kfree(ptk_pn);
+ }
/*
* can't add key for RX, but we don't need it
* in the device for TX so still return 0,
