[PATCH 3.8 113/124] ieee802154: Fix memory leak in ieee802154_add_iface()

Kamal Mostafa kamal at canonical.com
Mon Feb 10 19:40:53 UTC 2014


3.8.13.18 -stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Christian Engelmayer <cengelma at gmx.at>

[ Upstream commit 267d29a69c6af39445f36102a832b25ed483f299 ]

Fix a memory leak in the ieee802154_add_iface() error handling path.
Detected by Coverity: CID 710490.

Signed-off-by: Christian Engelmayer <cengelma at gmx.at>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem at davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 net/ieee802154/nl-phy.c | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/ieee802154/nl-phy.c b/net/ieee802154/nl-phy.c
index 22b1a70..4efd237 100644
--- a/net/ieee802154/nl-phy.c
+++ b/net/ieee802154/nl-phy.c
@@ -224,8 +224,10 @@ static int ieee802154_add_iface(struct sk_buff *skb,
 
 	if (info->attrs[IEEE802154_ATTR_DEV_TYPE]) {
 		type = nla_get_u8(info->attrs[IEEE802154_ATTR_DEV_TYPE]);
-		if (type >= __IEEE802154_DEV_MAX)
-			return -EINVAL;
+		if (type >= __IEEE802154_DEV_MAX) {
+			rc = -EINVAL;
+			goto nla_put_failure;
+		}
 	}
 
 	dev = phy->add_iface(phy, devname, type);
-- 
1.8.3.2





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