nl80211: Fix potential memory leak from parse_acl_data
authorOla Olsson <ola1olsson@gmail.com>
Thu, 29 Oct 2015 06:04:58 +0000 (07:04 +0100)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Wed, 9 Dec 2015 19:03:19 +0000 (14:03 -0500)
commit 4baf6bea37247e59f1971e8009d13aeda95edba2 upstream.

If parse_acl_data succeeds but the subsequent parsing of smps
attributes fails, there will be a memory leak due to early returns.
Fix that by moving the ACL parsing later.

Fixes: 18998c381b19b ("cfg80211: allow requesting SMPS mode on ap start")
Signed-off-by: Ola Olsson <ola.olsson@sonymobile.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
net/wireless/nl80211.c

index dd78445..04b6f3f 100644 (file)
@@ -3407,12 +3407,6 @@ static int nl80211_start_ap(struct sk_buff *skb, struct genl_info *info)
                                     wdev->iftype))
                return -EINVAL;
 
-       if (info->attrs[NL80211_ATTR_ACL_POLICY]) {
-               params.acl = parse_acl_data(&rdev->wiphy, info);
-               if (IS_ERR(params.acl))
-                       return PTR_ERR(params.acl);
-       }
-
        if (info->attrs[NL80211_ATTR_SMPS_MODE]) {
                params.smps_mode =
                        nla_get_u8(info->attrs[NL80211_ATTR_SMPS_MODE]);
@@ -3436,6 +3430,12 @@ static int nl80211_start_ap(struct sk_buff *skb, struct genl_info *info)
                params.smps_mode = NL80211_SMPS_OFF;
        }
 
+       if (info->attrs[NL80211_ATTR_ACL_POLICY]) {
+               params.acl = parse_acl_data(&rdev->wiphy, info);
+               if (IS_ERR(params.acl))
+                       return PTR_ERR(params.acl);
+       }
+
        wdev_lock(wdev);
        err = rdev_start_ap(rdev, dev, &params);
        if (!err) {