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| author | Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> | 2009-12-23 15:33:35 +0100 |
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| committer | John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> | 2009-12-28 16:19:58 -0500 |
| commit | 65486c8b30498dd274eea2c542696f22b63fe5b8 (patch) | |
| tree | 4bcbeb24ce1655c275f2e1780cacefaf2b306781 /net/wireless | |
| parent | befabac2d8e4925b97c5eebc78ecc4b2079fd9dd (diff) | |
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cfg80211: fix error path in cfg80211_wext_siwscan
If there's an invalid channel or SSID, the code leaks
the scan request. Always free the scan request, unless
it was successfully given to the driver.
Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Acked-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/wireless')
| -rw-r--r-- | net/wireless/scan.c | 13 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/net/wireless/scan.c b/net/wireless/scan.c index 12dfa62aad18..0c2cbbebca95 100644 --- a/net/wireless/scan.c +++ b/net/wireless/scan.c @@ -601,7 +601,7 @@ int cfg80211_wext_siwscan(struct net_device *dev, struct cfg80211_registered_device *rdev; struct wiphy *wiphy; struct iw_scan_req *wreq = NULL; - struct cfg80211_scan_request *creq; + struct cfg80211_scan_request *creq = NULL; int i, err, n_channels = 0; enum ieee80211_band band; @@ -694,8 +694,10 @@ int cfg80211_wext_siwscan(struct net_device *dev, /* translate "Scan for SSID" request */ if (wreq) { if (wrqu->data.flags & IW_SCAN_THIS_ESSID) { - if (wreq->essid_len > IEEE80211_MAX_SSID_LEN) - return -EINVAL; + if (wreq->essid_len > IEEE80211_MAX_SSID_LEN) { + err = -EINVAL; + goto out; + } memcpy(creq->ssids[0].ssid, wreq->essid, wreq->essid_len); creq->ssids[0].ssid_len = wreq->essid_len; } @@ -707,12 +709,15 @@ int cfg80211_wext_siwscan(struct net_device *dev, err = rdev->ops->scan(wiphy, dev, creq); if (err) { rdev->scan_req = NULL; - kfree(creq); + /* creq will be freed below */ } else { nl80211_send_scan_start(rdev, dev); + /* creq now owned by driver */ + creq = NULL; dev_hold(dev); } out: + kfree(creq); cfg80211_unlock_rdev(rdev); return err; } |