4.9-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Herbert Xu herbert@gondor.apana.org.au
commit 4ff3a9d14c6c06eaa4e5976c61599ea2bd9e81b2 upstream.
When rhashtable insertion fails the mesh table code doesn't free the now-orphan mesh path object. This patch fixes that.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu herbert@gondor.apana.org.au Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg johannes.berg@intel.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
--- net/mac80211/mesh_pathtbl.c | 17 +++++++++-------- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
--- a/net/mac80211/mesh_pathtbl.c +++ b/net/mac80211/mesh_pathtbl.c @@ -449,17 +449,15 @@ struct mesh_path *mesh_path_add(struct i
} while (unlikely(ret == -EEXIST && !mpath));
- if (ret && ret != -EEXIST) - return ERR_PTR(ret); - - /* At this point either new_mpath was added, or we found a - * matching entry already in the table; in the latter case - * free the unnecessary new entry. - */ - if (ret == -EEXIST) { + if (ret) { kfree(new_mpath); + + if (ret != -EEXIST) + return ERR_PTR(ret); + new_mpath = mpath; } + sdata->u.mesh.mesh_paths_generation++; return new_mpath; } @@ -489,6 +487,9 @@ int mpp_path_add(struct ieee80211_sub_if &new_mpath->rhash, mesh_rht_params);
+ if (ret) + kfree(new_mpath); + sdata->u.mesh.mpp_paths_generation++; return ret; }