From a18c7192aabac73078f35e5ef4ce28ad5f8cfe8e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Johannes Berg Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2015 10:56:42 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] nl80211: fix memory leak in monitor flags parsing If monitor flags parsing results in active monitor but that isn't supported, the already allocated message is leaked. Fix this by moving the allocation after this check. Reported-by: Christian Engelmayer Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg --- net/wireless/nl80211.c | 8 ++++---- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/net/wireless/nl80211.c b/net/wireless/nl80211.c index 3c7fb0459e58..be2501538011 100644 --- a/net/wireless/nl80211.c +++ b/net/wireless/nl80211.c @@ -2654,10 +2654,6 @@ static int nl80211_new_interface(struct sk_buff *skb, struct genl_info *info) return err; } - msg = nlmsg_new(NLMSG_DEFAULT_SIZE, GFP_KERNEL); - if (!msg) - return -ENOMEM; - err = parse_monitor_flags(type == NL80211_IFTYPE_MONITOR ? info->attrs[NL80211_ATTR_MNTR_FLAGS] : NULL, &flags); @@ -2666,6 +2662,10 @@ static int nl80211_new_interface(struct sk_buff *skb, struct genl_info *info) !(rdev->wiphy.features & NL80211_FEATURE_ACTIVE_MONITOR)) return -EOPNOTSUPP; + msg = nlmsg_new(NLMSG_DEFAULT_SIZE, GFP_KERNEL); + if (!msg) + return -ENOMEM; + wdev = rdev_add_virtual_intf(rdev, nla_data(info->attrs[NL80211_ATTR_IFNAME]), type, err ? NULL : &flags, ¶ms); -- 2.20.1