[4.2.y-ckt stable] Patch "mac80211: fix statistics leak if dev_alloc_name() fails" has been added to the 4.2.y-ckt tree

[Kamal Mostafa]

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

    mac80211: fix statistics leak if dev_alloc_name() fails

to the linux-4.2.y-queue branch of the 4.2.y-ckt extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

    https://git.launchpad.net/~canonical-kernel/linux/+git/linux-stable-ckt/log/?h=linux-4.2.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 4.2.8-ckt10.

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

For more information about the 4.2.y-ckt tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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From: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg at intel.com>
Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2016 13:47:08 +0200
Subject: mac80211: fix statistics leak if dev_alloc_name() fails

commit e6436be21e77e3659b4ff7e357ab5a8342d132d2 upstream.

In the case that dev_alloc_name() fails, e.g. because the name was
given by the user and already exists, we need to clean up properly
and free the per-CPU statistics. Fix that.

Fixes: 5a490510ba5f ("mac80211: use per-CPU TX/RX statistics")
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg at intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 net/mac80211/iface.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/mac80211/iface.c b/net/mac80211/iface.c
index 2caf837..a36c24d 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/iface.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/iface.c
@@ -1750,7 +1750,7 @@ int ieee80211_if_add(struct ieee80211_local *local, const char *name,

 		ret = dev_alloc_name(ndev, ndev->name);
 		if (ret < 0) {
-			free_netdev(ndev);
+			ieee80211_if_free(ndev);
 			return ret;
 		}

@@ -1826,7 +1826,7 @@ int ieee80211_if_add(struct ieee80211_local *local, const char *name,

 		ret = register_netdevice(ndev);
 		if (ret) {
-			free_netdev(ndev);
+			ieee80211_if_free(ndev);
 			return ret;
 		}
 	}
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