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nl80211: Move ACL parsing later to avoid a possible memory leak

Message ID 1467706491-22859-1-git-send-email-pkushwah@qti.qualcomm.com (mailing list archive)
State Accepted
Delegated to: Johannes Berg
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Commit Message

Purushottam Kushwaha July 5, 2016, 8:14 a.m. UTC
No support for pbss results in a memory leak for the acl_data
(if parse_acl_data succeeds). Fix this by moving the ACL parsing later.

Fixes: 34d505193bd10 ("cfg80211: basic support for PBSS network type")
Signed-off-by: Purushottam Kushwaha <pkushwah@qti.qualcomm.com>
---
 net/wireless/nl80211.c | 8 ++++----
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

Comments

Johannes Berg July 6, 2016, 11:09 a.m. UTC | #1
On Tue, 2016-07-05 at 13:44 +0530, Purushottam Kushwaha wrote:
> No support for pbss results in a memory leak for the acl_data
> (if parse_acl_data succeeds). Fix this by moving the ACL parsing
> later.
> 
Applied, thanks.

johannes
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Patch

diff --git a/net/wireless/nl80211.c b/net/wireless/nl80211.c
index 244d552..c11dccf 100644
--- a/net/wireless/nl80211.c
+++ b/net/wireless/nl80211.c
@@ -3532,16 +3532,16 @@  static int nl80211_start_ap(struct sk_buff *skb, struct genl_info *info)
 		params.smps_mode = NL80211_SMPS_OFF;
 	}
 
+	params.pbss = nla_get_flag(info->attrs[NL80211_ATTR_PBSS]);
+	if (params.pbss && !rdev->wiphy.bands[NL80211_BAND_60GHZ])
+		return -EOPNOTSUPP;
+
 	if (info->attrs[NL80211_ATTR_ACL_POLICY]) {
 		params.acl = parse_acl_data(&rdev->wiphy, info);
 		if (IS_ERR(params.acl))
 			return PTR_ERR(params.acl);
 	}
 
-	params.pbss = nla_get_flag(info->attrs[NL80211_ATTR_PBSS]);
-	if (params.pbss && !rdev->wiphy.bands[NL80211_BAND_60GHZ])
-		return -EOPNOTSUPP;
-
 	wdev_lock(wdev);
 	err = rdev_start_ap(rdev, dev, &params);
 	if (!err) {