Patch "mac80211_hwsim: Fix memory leak in hwsim_new_radio_nl()" has been added to the 4.14-stable tree
From: <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Date: 2017-12-12 10:12:37
This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
mac80211_hwsim: Fix memory leak in hwsim_new_radio_nl()
to the 4.14-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
mac80211_hwsim-fix-memory-leak-in-hwsim_new_radio_nl.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.14 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let [off-list ref] know about it.
From foo@baz Tue Dec 12 10:32:42 CET 2017
From: Ben Hutchings <redacted>
Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2017 18:48:50 +0000
Subject: mac80211_hwsim: Fix memory leak in hwsim_new_radio_nl()
From: Ben Hutchings <redacted>
[ Upstream commit 67bd52386125ce1159c0581cbcd2740addf33cd4 ]
hwsim_new_radio_nl() now copies the name attribute in order to add a
null-terminator. mac80211_hwsim_new_radio() (indirectly) copies it
again into the net_device structure, so the first copy is not used or
freed later. Free the first copy before returning.
Fixes: ff4dd73dd2b4 ("mac80211_hwsim: check HWSIM_ATTR_RADIO_NAME length")
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
drivers/net/wireless/mac80211_hwsim.c | 5 ++++-
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/mac80211_hwsim.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/mac80211_hwsim.c@@ -3108,6 +3108,7 @@ static int hwsim_new_radio_nl(struct sk_ { struct hwsim_new_radio_params param = { 0 }; const char *hwname = NULL; + int ret; param.reg_strict = info->attrs[HWSIM_ATTR_REG_STRICT_REG]; param.p2p_device = info->attrs[HWSIM_ATTR_SUPPORT_P2P_DEVICE];
@@ -3147,7 +3148,9 @@ static int hwsim_new_radio_nl(struct sk_ param.regd = hwsim_world_regdom_custom[idx]; } - return mac80211_hwsim_new_radio(info, ¶m); + ret = mac80211_hwsim_new_radio(info, ¶m); + kfree(hwname); + return ret; } static int hwsim_del_radio_nl(struct sk_buff *msg, struct genl_info *info)
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from ben.hutchings@codethink.co.uk are queue-4.14/mac80211_hwsim-fix-memory-leak-in-hwsim_new_radio_nl.patch