This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
mac80211_hwsim: Fix memory leak in hwsim_new_radio_nl()
to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git%3Ba=su...
The filename of the patch is: mac80211_hwsim-fix-memory-leak-in-hwsim_new_radio_nl.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let stable@vger.kernel.org know about it.
From foo@baz Tue Dec 12 13:38:50 CET 2017
From: Ben Hutchings ben.hutchings@codethink.co.uk Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2017 18:48:50 +0000 Subject: mac80211_hwsim: Fix memory leak in hwsim_new_radio_nl()
From: Ben Hutchings ben.hutchings@codethink.co.uk
[ Upstream commit 67bd52386125ce1159c0581cbcd2740addf33cd4 ]
hwsim_new_radio_nl() now copies the name attribute in order to add a null-terminator. mac80211_hwsim_new_radio() (indirectly) copies it again into the net_device structure, so the first copy is not used or freed later. Free the first copy before returning.
Fixes: ff4dd73dd2b4 ("mac80211_hwsim: check HWSIM_ATTR_RADIO_NAME length") Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings ben.hutchings@codethink.co.uk Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg johannes.berg@intel.com Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin alexander.levin@verizon.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- drivers/net/wireless/mac80211_hwsim.c | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/mac80211_hwsim.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/mac80211_hwsim.c @@ -2885,6 +2885,7 @@ static int hwsim_new_radio_nl(struct sk_ { struct hwsim_new_radio_params param = { 0 }; const char *hwname = NULL; + int ret;
param.reg_strict = info->attrs[HWSIM_ATTR_REG_STRICT_REG]; param.p2p_device = info->attrs[HWSIM_ATTR_SUPPORT_P2P_DEVICE]; @@ -2924,7 +2925,9 @@ static int hwsim_new_radio_nl(struct sk_ param.regd = hwsim_world_regdom_custom[idx]; }
- return mac80211_hwsim_new_radio(info, ¶m); + ret = mac80211_hwsim_new_radio(info, ¶m); + kfree(hwname); + return ret; }
static int hwsim_del_radio_nl(struct sk_buff *msg, struct genl_info *info)
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from ben.hutchings@codethink.co.uk are
queue-4.4/mac80211_hwsim-fix-memory-leak-in-hwsim_new_radio_nl.patch