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mac80211: Fix memory leak in ieee80211_if_write()

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Fix memory leak and use kmalloc() instead of kzalloc() as we are going
to overwrite the allocated buffer.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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Eric Dumazet 2010-03-10 17:13:36 +01:00 committed by John W. Linville
parent 2a13052fe4
commit 51f5f8ca44
1 changed files with 7 additions and 3 deletions
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net/mac80211/debugfs_netdev.c
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@ -48,20 +48,24 @@ static ssize_t ieee80211_if_write(
ssize_t (*write)(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *, const char *, int))
{
u8 *buf;
ssize_t ret = -ENODEV;
ssize_t ret;
buf = kzalloc(count, GFP_KERNEL);
buf = kmalloc(count, GFP_KERNEL);
if (!buf)
return -ENOMEM;
ret = -EFAULT;
if (copy_from_user(buf, userbuf, count))
return -EFAULT;
goto freebuf;
ret = -ENODEV;
rtnl_lock();
if (sdata->dev->reg_state == NETREG_REGISTERED)
ret = (*write)(sdata, buf, count);
rtnl_unlock();
freebuf:
kfree(buf);
return ret;
}