Sep 02 2012

nl80211: fix possible memory leak nl80211_connect() 

Author: Wei Yongjun <yongjun_wei@trendmicro.com.cn>

connkeys is malloced in nl80211_parse_connkeys() and should
be freed in the error handling case, otherwise it will cause
memory leak.

spatch with a semantic match is used to found this problem.
(http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/)

Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun 
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg 

---
 net/wireless/nl80211.c | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
 
diff --git a/net/wireless/nl80211.c b/net/wireless/nl80211.c
index 97026f3..1e37dbf 100644
--- a/net/wireless/nl80211.c
+++ b/net/wireless/nl80211.c
@@ -5633,8 +5633,10 @@ static int nl80211_connect(struct sk_buff *skb, struct genl_info *info)
 		       sizeof(connect.ht_capa_mask));
 
 	if (info->attrs[NL80211_ATTR_HT_CAPABILITY]) {
-		if (!info->attrs[NL80211_ATTR_HT_CAPABILITY_MASK])
+		if (!info->attrs[NL80211_ATTR_HT_CAPABILITY_MASK]) {
+			kfree(connkeys);
 			return -EINVAL;
+		}
 		memcpy(&connect.ht_capa,
 		       nla_data(info->attrs[NL80211_ATTR_HT_CAPABILITY]),
 		       sizeof(connect.ht_capa));

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