[3.11.y.z extended stable] Patch "mwifiex: fix memory leak issue for ibss join" has been added to staging queue

[Luis Henriques]

This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    mwifiex: fix memory leak issue for ibss join

to the linux-3.11.y-queue branch of the 3.11.y.z extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.11.y-queue

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.11.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Luis

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From: Ujjal Roy <royujjal at gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2013 11:08:56 -0800
Subject: mwifiex: fix memory leak issue for ibss join

commit 517543fd72d577dde2ebd9505dc4abf26d589f9a upstream.

For IBSS join if the requested SSID matches current SSID,
it returns without freeing the allocated beacon IE buffer.

Signed-off-by: Ujjal Roy <royujjal at gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Bing Zhao <bzhao at marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville at tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/sta_ioctl.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/sta_ioctl.c b/drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/sta_ioctl.c
index 8af97ab..252e09b 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/sta_ioctl.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/sta_ioctl.c
@@ -319,8 +319,8 @@ int mwifiex_bss_start(struct mwifiex_private *priv, struct cfg80211_bss *bss,
 		if (bss_desc && bss_desc->ssid.ssid_len &&
 		    (!mwifiex_ssid_cmp(&priv->curr_bss_params.bss_descriptor.
 				       ssid, &bss_desc->ssid))) {
-			kfree(bss_desc);
-			return 0;
+			ret = 0;
+			goto done;
 		}

 		/* Exit Adhoc mode first */
--
1.8.3.2