mac80211: fix statistics leak if dev_alloc_name() fails

commit e6436be21e77e3659b4ff7e357ab5a8342d132d2 upstream.

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.

Fixes: 5a490510ba5f ("mac80211: use per-CPU TX/RX statistics")
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

diff --git a/net/mac80211/iface.c b/net/mac80211/iface.c
index 7a2b7915093bfb8e76ae1239a75a6a9ca710ab3c..bcb0a1b645567e5c67e5c75f780fe38ce3356e40 100644 (file)
--- a/net/mac80211/iface.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/iface.c
@@ -1750,7 +1750,7 @@ 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;
                }
 
@@ -1836,7 +1836,7 @@ 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;
                }
        }