From c9539f4c87fc6ad038da0091ff64c8ef640bb751 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Johannes Berg Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2015 10:56:42 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] nl80211: fix memory leak in monitor flags parsing If monitor flags parsing results in active monitor but that isn't supported, the already allocated message is leaked. Fix this by moving the allocation after this check. Reported-by: Christian Engelmayer Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg --- net/wireless/nl80211.c | 8 ++++---- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/net/wireless/nl80211.c b/net/wireless/nl80211.c index 3c7fb0459e588..be25015380118 100644 --- a/net/wireless/nl80211.c +++ b/net/wireless/nl80211.c @@ -2654,10 +2654,6 @@ static int nl80211_new_interface(struct sk_buff *skb, struct genl_info *info) return err; } - msg = nlmsg_new(NLMSG_DEFAULT_SIZE, GFP_KERNEL); - if (!msg) - return -ENOMEM; - err = parse_monitor_flags(type == NL80211_IFTYPE_MONITOR ? info->attrs[NL80211_ATTR_MNTR_FLAGS] : NULL, &flags); @@ -2666,6 +2662,10 @@ static int nl80211_new_interface(struct sk_buff *skb, struct genl_info *info) !(rdev->wiphy.features & NL80211_FEATURE_ACTIVE_MONITOR)) return -EOPNOTSUPP; + msg = nlmsg_new(NLMSG_DEFAULT_SIZE, GFP_KERNEL); + if (!msg) + return -ENOMEM; + wdev = rdev_add_virtual_intf(rdev, nla_data(info->attrs[NL80211_ATTR_IFNAME]), type, err ? NULL : &flags, ¶ms); -- 2.39.5