[PATCH AUTOSEL for 4.9 235/293] mac80211_hwsim: fix possible memory leak in hwsim_new_radio_nl()

From: Sasha Levin
Date: Sun Apr 08 2018 - 21:54:34 EST


From: "weiyongjun (A)" <weiyongjun1@xxxxxxxxxx>

[ Upstream commit 0ddcff49b672239dda94d70d0fcf50317a9f4b51 ]

'hwname' is malloced in hwsim_new_radio_nl() and should be freed
before leaving from the error handling cases, otherwise it will cause
memory leak.

Fixes: ff4dd73dd2b4 ("mac80211_hwsim: check HWSIM_ATTR_RADIO_NAME length")
Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun <weiyongjun1@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Ben Hutchings <ben.hutchings@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/net/wireless/mac80211_hwsim.c | 4 +++-
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/mac80211_hwsim.c b/drivers/net/wireless/mac80211_hwsim.c
index 4182c3775a72..eb6a145d2ed6 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/mac80211_hwsim.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/mac80211_hwsim.c
@@ -3084,8 +3084,10 @@ static int hwsim_new_radio_nl(struct sk_buff *msg, struct genl_info *info)
if (info->attrs[HWSIM_ATTR_REG_CUSTOM_REG]) {
u32 idx = nla_get_u32(info->attrs[HWSIM_ATTR_REG_CUSTOM_REG]);

- if (idx >= ARRAY_SIZE(hwsim_world_regdom_custom))
+ if (idx >= ARRAY_SIZE(hwsim_world_regdom_custom)) {
+ kfree(hwname);
return -EINVAL;
+ }
param.regd = hwsim_world_regdom_custom[idx];
}

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2.15.1