mac80211: fix a memory leak on sta rate selection table
authorFelix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Tue, 27 May 2014 20:33:57 +0000 (22:33 +0200)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Wed, 9 Jul 2014 18:14:01 +0000 (11:14 -0700)
commit 53d045258ee2e38b1e882617cb0799a04d05f5fa upstream.

If the rate control algorithm uses a selection table, it
is leaked when the station is destroyed - fix that.

Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Reported-by: Christophe Prévotaux <cprevotaux@nltinc.com>
Fixes: 0d528d85c519 ("mac80211: improve the rate control API")
[add commit log entry, remove pointless NULL check]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
net/mac80211/sta_info.c

index 0418777c361f4dbcaf74aeff8a538a94eee35c5b..557a5760f9f6c1a35b826978c4e7e57d2ee7007c 100644 (file)
@@ -270,6 +270,7 @@ void sta_info_free(struct ieee80211_local *local, struct sta_info *sta)
 
        sta_dbg(sta->sdata, "Destroyed STA %pM\n", sta->sta.addr);
 
+       kfree(rcu_dereference_raw(sta->sta.rates));
        kfree(sta);
 }