nl80211: Move ACL parsing later to avoid a possible memory leak
authorPurushottam Kushwaha <pkushwah@qti.qualcomm.com>
Tue, 5 Jul 2016 08:14:51 +0000 (13:44 +0530)
committerJohannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Wed, 6 Jul 2016 11:09:02 +0000 (13:09 +0200)
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.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 34d505193bd10 ("cfg80211: basic support for PBSS network type")
Signed-off-by: Purushottam Kushwaha <pkushwah@qti.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
net/wireless/nl80211.c

index d7599014055dfc1c3d256d917e3a3645f1a27143..7d72283901a3bb8fa7d3294e5dcdfbc6cd61e3a2 100644 (file)
@@ -3487,16 +3487,16 @@ 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) {