This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
ieee802154: Fix memory leak in ieee802154_add_iface()
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:
ieee802154-fix-memory-leak-in-ieee802154_add_iface.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 foo@baz Tue Feb 4 09:14:01 PST 2014
From: Christian Engelmayer <cengelma@xxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2014 22:19:30 +0100
Subject: ieee802154: Fix memory leak in ieee802154_add_iface()
From: Christian Engelmayer <cengelma@xxxxxx>
[ Upstream commit 267d29a69c6af39445f36102a832b25ed483f299 ]
Fix a memory leak in the ieee802154_add_iface() error handling path.
Detected by Coverity: CID 710490.
Signed-off-by: Christian Engelmayer <cengelma@xxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
net/ieee802154/nl-phy.c | 6 ++++--
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
--- a/net/ieee802154/nl-phy.c
+++ b/net/ieee802154/nl-phy.c
@@ -224,8 +224,10 @@ static int ieee802154_add_iface(struct s
if (info->attrs[IEEE802154_ATTR_DEV_TYPE]) {
type = nla_get_u8(info->attrs[IEEE802154_ATTR_DEV_TYPE]);
- if (type >= __IEEE802154_DEV_MAX)
- return -EINVAL;
+ if (type >= __IEEE802154_DEV_MAX) {
+ rc = -EINVAL;
+ goto nla_put_failure;
+ }
}
dev = phy->add_iface(phy, devname, type);
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from cengelma@xxxxxx are
queue-3.12/ieee802154-fix-memory-leak-in-ieee802154_add_iface.patch
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