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authorJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>2016-04-26 13:47:08 +0200
committerJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>2016-04-27 10:06:58 +0200
commite6436be21e77e3659b4ff7e357ab5a8342d132d2 (patch)
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parent8f815cdde3e550e10c2736990d791f60c2ce43eb (diff)
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mac80211: fix statistics leak if dev_alloc_name() fails
In the case that dev_alloc_name() fails, e.g. because the name was given by the user and already exists, we need to clean up properly and free the per-CPU statistics. Fix that. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: 5a490510ba5f ("mac80211: use per-CPU TX/RX statistics") Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/mac80211')
-rw-r--r--net/mac80211/iface.c4
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/net/mac80211/iface.c b/net/mac80211/iface.c
index 453b4e741780..e1cb22c16530 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/iface.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/iface.c
@@ -1761,7 +1761,7 @@ int ieee80211_if_add(struct ieee80211_local *local, const char *name,
ret = dev_alloc_name(ndev, ndev->name);
if (ret < 0) {
- free_netdev(ndev);
+ ieee80211_if_free(ndev);
return ret;
}
@@ -1847,7 +1847,7 @@ int ieee80211_if_add(struct ieee80211_local *local, const char *name,
ret = register_netdevice(ndev);
if (ret) {
- free_netdev(ndev);
+ ieee80211_if_free(ndev);
return ret;
}
}