Re: [PATCH] cfg80211: Fix memory leak in cfg80211_inform_single_bss_frame_data

On Mon, Oct 28, 2019 at 7:12 AM Johannes Berg [off-list ref] wrote:

On Sun, 2019-10-27 at 13:15 -0500, Navid Emamdoost wrote:

quoted

In the implementation of cfg80211_inform_single_bss_frame_data() the
allocated memory for ies is leaked in case of an error. Release ies if
cfg80211_bss_update() fails.

I'm pretty sure it's more complicated than this patch (and the previous
one) - we already do free this at least in the case that "new =
kzalloc(...)" fails in cfg80211_bss_update().

Now I agree, there are two cases of release for ies in cfg80211_bss_update().
But for future reference, I suspect the last two cases of goto drop to
be mishandling ies.

Your Fixes: tag is also wrong, back then we didn't even have the dynamic
allocation of the IEs.

I'm dropping this patch and the other and will make a note to eventually
look at the lifetime issue here you point out, but if you want to work
on it instead let me know.

johannes

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Navid.