[PATCH] staging: rtl8188eu: fix potential leak in update_bcn_wps_ie()

Christian Engelmayer cengelma at gmx.at
Thu May 1 11:58:10 UTC 2014


Fix a potential leak in the error path of function update_bcn_wps_ie().
Make sure that allocated memory for 'pbackup_remainder_ie' is freed
upon return. Detected by Coverity - CID 1077718.

Signed-off-by: Christian Engelmayer <cengelma at gmx.at>
---
Compile tested and applies against branch staging-next of tree
git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/staging.git
---
 drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/core/rtw_ap.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/core/rtw_ap.c b/drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/core/rtw_ap.c
index ff74d0d..6268f44 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/core/rtw_ap.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/core/rtw_ap.c
@@ -1325,7 +1325,7 @@ static void update_bcn_wps_ie(struct adapter *padapter)
 
 	pwps_ie_src = pmlmepriv->wps_beacon_ie;
 	if (pwps_ie_src == NULL)
-		return;
+		goto exit;
 
 	wps_ielen = (uint)pwps_ie_src[1];/* to get ie data len */
 	if ((wps_offset+wps_ielen+2+remainder_ielen) <= MAX_IE_SZ) {
@@ -1339,6 +1339,7 @@ static void update_bcn_wps_ie(struct adapter *padapter)
 		pnetwork->IELength = wps_offset + (wps_ielen+2) + remainder_ielen;
 	}
 
+exit:
 	kfree(pbackup_remainder_ie);
 }
 
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1.9.1
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