From 51f5f8ca446d4c59041b9b6995821e13208897ea Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eric Dumazet Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:13:36 +0100 Subject: mac80211: Fix memory leak in ieee80211_if_write() Fix memory leak and use kmalloc() instead of kzalloc() as we are going to overwrite the allocated buffer. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Signed-off-by: John W. Linville --- net/mac80211/debugfs_netdev.c | 10 +++++++--- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) (limited to 'net/mac80211') diff --git a/net/mac80211/debugfs_netdev.c b/net/mac80211/debugfs_netdev.c index 9affe2cd185f..b4ddb2f83914 100644 --- a/net/mac80211/debugfs_netdev.c +++ b/net/mac80211/debugfs_netdev.c @@ -48,20 +48,24 @@ static ssize_t ieee80211_if_write( ssize_t (*write)(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *, const char *, int)) { u8 *buf; - ssize_t ret = -ENODEV; + ssize_t ret; - buf = kzalloc(count, GFP_KERNEL); + buf = kmalloc(count, GFP_KERNEL); if (!buf) return -ENOMEM; + ret = -EFAULT; if (copy_from_user(buf, userbuf, count)) - return -EFAULT; + goto freebuf; + ret = -ENODEV; rtnl_lock(); if (sdata->dev->reg_state == NETREG_REGISTERED) ret = (*write)(sdata, buf, count); rtnl_unlock(); +freebuf: + kfree(buf); return ret; } -- cgit v1.2.3