Thread (1 message) 1 message, 1 author, 2013-02-05

Re: [PATCH] cfg80211: Fix memory leak

From: Johannes Berg <hidden>
Date: 2013-02-05 10:06:06
Also in: linux-wireless

On Mon, 2013-02-04 at 15:33 -0600, Larry Finger wrote:
From: Johannes Berg <redacted>

When a driver requests a specific regulatory domain after cfg80211 already
has one, a struct ieee80211_regdomain is leaked.
Thanks Larry!
Johannes,

I added a From: for you as the content of this patch is yours.
I changed it back, it's really your patch, I only suggested a bit of the
code :-)
quoted hunk
--- a/net/wireless/reg.c
+++ b/net/wireless/reg.c
@@ -2189,10 +2189,14 @@ static int __set_regdom(const struct ieee80211_regdomain *rd)
 		 * However if a driver requested this specific regulatory
 		 * domain we keep it for its private use
 		 */
-		if (lr->initiator == NL80211_REGDOM_SET_BY_DRIVER)
+		if (lr->initiator == NL80211_REGDOM_SET_BY_DRIVER) {
+			const struct ieee80211_regdomain *tmp =
+						get_wiphy_regdom(request_wiphy);
 			rcu_assign_pointer(request_wiphy->regd, rd);
-		else
+			rcu_free_regdom(tmp);
Luis, when you get back can you please audit the other places? I'm not
convinced that there aren't more places that need to free the regdom,
but I don't really want to dig into the code right now.

johannes

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