Commit 517543fd authored Nov 21, 2013 by Ujjal Roy Committed by John W. Linville Nov 25, 2013

mwifiex: fix memory leak issue for ibss join



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

Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 3.10+
Signed-off-by: Ujjal Roy <royujjal@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Bing Zhao <bzhao@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

parent 0b3f5753

drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/sta_ioctl.c

+2 −2

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -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 */