[PATCH] mac80211: fix memory leak

From	Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	[PATCH] mac80211: fix memory leak
Date	2016-01-29 10:50 +0100
Message-ID	<qWdQJ-La-3@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink)
Organization	linux.* mail to news gateway

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On error we jumped to the error label and returned the error code but we
missed releasing sinfo.

Signed-off-by: Sudip Mukherjee <sudip@vectorindia.org>
---
 net/mac80211/sta_info.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/net/mac80211/sta_info.c b/net/mac80211/sta_info.c
index 6c198e6..36e75c4 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/sta_info.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/sta_info.c
@@ -561,6 +561,7 @@ static int sta_info_insert_finish(struct sta_info *sta) __acquires(RCU)
 	__cleanup_single_sta(sta);
  out_err:
 	mutex_unlock(&local->sta_mtx);
+	kfree(sinfo);
 	rcu_read_lock();
 	return err;
 }
-- 
1.9.1

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[PATCH] mac80211: fix memory leak Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com> - 2016-01-29 10:50 +0100
  Re: [PATCH] mac80211: fix memory leak Julian Calaby <julian.calaby@gmail.com> - 2016-02-01 01:10 +0100
    Re: [PATCH] mac80211: fix memory leak Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com> - 2016-02-01 05:30 +0100
      Re: [PATCH] mac80211: fix memory leak Julian Calaby <julian.calaby@gmail.com> - 2016-02-01 05:40 +0100
      Re: [PATCH] mac80211: fix memory leak Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org> - 2016-02-01 10:30 +0100
        Re: [PATCH] mac80211: fix memory leak Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com> - 2016-02-01 10:40 +0100
          Re: [PATCH] mac80211: fix memory leak Julian Calaby <julian.calaby@gmail.com> - 2016-02-01 11:30 +0100
        Re: [PATCH] mac80211: fix memory leak Sergei Shtylyov <sergei.shtylyov@cogentembedded.com> - 2016-02-01 14:00 +0100

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