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 3.14-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-3.14 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
@@ -240,6 +240,7 @@ 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-3.14/mac80211-fix-a-memory-leak-on-sta-rate-selection-table.patch
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