From: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2016 11:47:08 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: mac80211: fix statistics leak if dev_alloc_name() fails
X-Git-Tag: v4.6-rc7~38^2~14^2
X-Git-Url: https://asedeno.scripts.mit.edu/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=e6436be21e77e3659b4ff7e357ab5a8342d132d2;p=linux.git

mac80211: fix statistics leak if dev_alloc_name() fails

In the case that dev_alloc_name() fails, e.g. because the name was
given by the user and already exists, we need to clean up properly
and free the per-CPU statistics. Fix that.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 5a490510ba5f ("mac80211: use per-CPU TX/RX statistics")
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
---

diff --git a/net/mac80211/iface.c b/net/mac80211/iface.c
index 453b4e741780..e1cb22c16530 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/iface.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/iface.c
@@ -1761,7 +1761,7 @@ int ieee80211_if_add(struct ieee80211_local *local, const char *name,
 
 		ret = dev_alloc_name(ndev, ndev->name);
 		if (ret < 0) {
-			free_netdev(ndev);
+			ieee80211_if_free(ndev);
 			return ret;
 		}
 
@@ -1847,7 +1847,7 @@ int ieee80211_if_add(struct ieee80211_local *local, const char *name,
 
 		ret = register_netdevice(ndev);
 		if (ret) {
-			free_netdev(ndev);
+			ieee80211_if_free(ndev);
 			return ret;
 		}
 	}