This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

staging: r8188eu: fix a memory leak in rtw_wx_read32()

to my staging git tree which can be found at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/staging.git in the staging-linus branch.

The patch will show up in the next release of the linux-next tree (usually sometime within the next 24 hours during the week.)

The patch will hopefully also be merged in Linus's tree for the next -rc kernel release.

If you have any questions about this process, please let me know.

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From: Dan Carpenter dan.carpenter@oracle.com Date: Tue, 9 Nov 2021 14:49:36 +0300 Subject: staging: r8188eu: fix a memory leak in rtw_wx_read32()

Free "ptmp" before returning -EINVAL.

Fixes: 2b42bd58b321 ("staging: r8188eu: introduce new os_dep dir for RTL8188eu driver") Cc: stable stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter dan.carpenter@oracle.com Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211109114935.GC16587@kili Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- drivers/staging/r8188eu/os_dep/ioctl_linux.c | 8 +++++++- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/r8188eu/os_dep/ioctl_linux.c b/drivers/staging/r8188eu/os_dep/ioctl_linux.c index 52d42e576443..9404355726d0 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/r8188eu/os_dep/ioctl_linux.c +++ b/drivers/staging/r8188eu/os_dep/ioctl_linux.c @@ -1980,6 +1980,7 @@ static int rtw_wx_read32(struct net_device *dev, u32 data32; u32 bytes; u8 *ptmp; + int ret;

padapter = (struct adapter *)rtw_netdev_priv(dev); p = &wrqu->data; @@ -2007,12 +2008,17 @@ static int rtw_wx_read32(struct net_device *dev, break; default: DBG_88E(KERN_INFO "%s: usage> read [bytes],[address(hex)]\n", __func__); - return -EINVAL; + ret = -EINVAL; + goto err_free_ptmp; } DBG_88E(KERN_INFO "%s: addr = 0x%08X data =%s\n", __func__, addr, extra);

kfree(ptmp); return 0; + +err_free_ptmp: + kfree(ptmp); + return ret; }

static int rtw_wx_write32(struct net_device *dev,