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Net, mac80211: Fix resource leak in ieee80211_rx_h_mesh_fwding() 

We may leak the 'fwd_skb' we skb_copy() in ieee80211_rx_h_mesh_fwding() if
we take the 'else' branch in the 'if' statement just below. If we take
that branch we'll end up returning from the function and since we've not
assigned 'fwd_skb' to anything at that point, we leak it when the variable
goes out of scope.

The simple fix seems to be to just kfree_skb(fwd_skb); just before we
return. That is what this patch does.

Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jj@chaosbits.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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Jesper Juhl 2012-01-14 21:52:17 +01:00 committed by John W. Linville
parent 7a532fe713
commit 74b8cc3d59
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@ -1979,6 +1979,7 @@ ieee80211_rx_h_mesh_fwding(struct ieee80211_rx_data *rx)
mesh_path_error_tx(ifmsh->mshcfg.element_ttl, fwd_hdr->addr3,
0, reason, fwd_hdr->addr2, sdata);
IEEE80211_IFSTA_MESH_CTR_INC(ifmsh, dropped_frames_no_route);
kfree_skb(fwd_skb);
return RX_DROP_MONITOR;
}