This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
mwifiex: fix memory leak issue for ibss join
to the 3.12-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:
mwifiex-fix-memory-leak-issue-for-ibss-join.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.12 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 517543fd72d577dde2ebd9505dc4abf26d589f9a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ujjal Roy <royujjal@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2013 11:08:56 -0800
Subject: mwifiex: fix memory leak issue for ibss join
From: Ujjal Roy <royujjal@xxxxxxxxx>
commit 517543fd72d577dde2ebd9505dc4abf26d589f9a upstream.
For IBSS join if the requested SSID matches current SSID,
it returns without freeing the allocated beacon IE buffer.
Signed-off-by: Ujjal Roy <royujjal@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Bing Zhao <bzhao@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/sta_ioctl.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/sta_ioctl.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/sta_ioctl.c
@@ -319,8 +319,8 @@ int mwifiex_bss_start(struct mwifiex_pri
if (bss_desc && bss_desc->ssid.ssid_len &&
(!mwifiex_ssid_cmp(&priv->curr_bss_params.bss_descriptor.
ssid, &bss_desc->ssid))) {
- kfree(bss_desc);
- return 0;
+ ret = 0;
+ goto done;
}
/* Exit Adhoc mode first */
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from royujjal@xxxxxxxxx are
queue-3.12/mwifiex-fix-memory-leak-issue-for-ibss-join.patch
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