From: Luca Coelho <luciano.coelho@xxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit bc7a39b4272b9672d806d422b6850e8c1a09914c ] When a memory leak was fixed, a return err was changed to goto err, but, accidentally, the if (err) was removed, so now we always exit at this point. Fix it by adding if (err) back. Fixes: 9951ebfcdf2b ("nl80211: fix potential leak in AP start") Signed-off-by: Luca Coelho <luciano.coelho@xxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/iwlwifi.20200626124931.871ba5b31eee.I97340172d92164ee92f3c803fe20a8a6e97714e1@changeid Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> --- net/wireless/nl80211.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/net/wireless/nl80211.c b/net/wireless/nl80211.c index b65180e874fb9..a34bbca80f498 100644 --- a/net/wireless/nl80211.c +++ b/net/wireless/nl80211.c @@ -4798,7 +4798,8 @@ static int nl80211_start_ap(struct sk_buff *skb, struct genl_info *info) err = nl80211_parse_he_obss_pd( info->attrs[NL80211_ATTR_HE_OBSS_PD], ¶ms.he_obss_pd); - goto out; + if (err) + goto out; } nl80211_calculate_ap_params(¶ms); -- 2.25.1