commit 6e8ef842223b90a33efd570128bb566a9ae6f5ad
author Purushottam Kushwaha <pkushwah@qti.qualcomm.com> Tue Jul 05 13:44:51 2016 +0530
committer Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Wed Jul 06 13:09:02 2016 +0200
tree ff244b3e2bf9e2a309e2ea50be75ec0de51794d5
parent c041778c966c92c964033f1cdfee60a9f2b5e465

nl80211: Move ACL parsing later to avoid a possible memory leak

No support for pbss results in a memory leak for the acl_data
(if parse_acl_data succeeds). Fix this by moving the ACL parsing later.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 34d505193bd10 ("cfg80211: basic support for PBSS network type")
Signed-off-by: Purushottam Kushwaha <pkushwah@qti.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>

net/wireless/nl80211.c

diff --git a/net/wireless/nl80211.c b/net/wireless/nl80211.c
index d759901..7d72283 100644
--- a/net/wireless/nl80211.c
+++ b/net/wireless/nl80211.c
@@ -3487,16 +3487,16 @@
 		params.smps_mode = NL80211_SMPS_OFF;
 	}
 
+	params.pbss = nla_get_flag(info->attrs[NL80211_ATTR_PBSS]);
+	if (params.pbss && !rdev->wiphy.bands[NL80211_BAND_60GHZ])
+		return -EOPNOTSUPP;
+
 	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);
 	}
 
-	params.pbss = nla_get_flag(info->attrs[NL80211_ATTR_PBSS]);
-	if (params.pbss && !rdev->wiphy.bands[NL80211_BAND_60GHZ])
-		return -EOPNOTSUPP;
-
 	wdev_lock(wdev);
 	err = rdev_start_ap(rdev, dev, &params);
 	if (!err) {