Patch "mac80211: fix a memory leak on sta rate selection table" has been added to the 3.10-stable tree

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This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    mac80211: fix a memory leak on sta rate selection table

to the 3.10-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:
     mac80211-fix-a-memory-leak-on-sta-rate-selection-table.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.10 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.


>From 53d045258ee2e38b1e882617cb0799a04d05f5fa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Felix Fietkau <nbd@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 27 May 2014 22:33:57 +0200
Subject: mac80211: fix a memory leak on sta rate selection table
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From: Felix Fietkau <nbd@xxxxxxxxxxx>

commit 53d045258ee2e38b1e882617cb0799a04d05f5fa upstream.

If the rate control algorithm uses a selection table, it
is leaked when the station is destroyed - fix that.

Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Reported-by: Christophe Prévotaux <cprevotaux@xxxxxxxxxx>
Fixes: 0d528d85c519 ("mac80211: improve the rate control API")
[add commit log entry, remove pointless NULL check]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

---
 net/mac80211/sta_info.c |    1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

--- a/net/mac80211/sta_info.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/sta_info.c
@@ -270,6 +270,7 @@ void sta_info_free(struct ieee80211_loca
 
 	sta_dbg(sta->sdata, "Destroyed STA %pM\n", sta->sta.addr);
 
+	kfree(rcu_dereference_raw(sta->sta.rates));
 	kfree(sta);
 }
 


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from nbd@xxxxxxxxxxx are

queue-3.10/mac80211-fix-a-memory-leak-on-sta-rate-selection-table.patch
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