From 4798e3b3fb8759bd0134a77e7d5112d37edde16b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ujjal Roy Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2013 11:08:56 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] mwifiex: fix memory leak issue for ibss join commit 517543fd72d577dde2ebd9505dc4abf26d589f9a upstream. For IBSS join if the requested SSID matches current SSID, it returns without freeing the allocated beacon IE buffer. Signed-off-by: Ujjal Roy Signed-off-by: Bing Zhao Signed-off-by: John W. Linville Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/sta_ioctl.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/sta_ioctl.c b/drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/sta_ioctl.c index 23aa910bc5d0..0a9f59c5ab5a 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/sta_ioctl.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/sta_ioctl.c @@ -309,8 +309,8 @@ int mwifiex_bss_start(struct mwifiex_private *priv, struct cfg80211_bss *bss, if (bss_desc && bss_desc->ssid.ssid_len && (!mwifiex_ssid_cmp(&priv->curr_bss_params.bss_descriptor. ssid, &bss_desc->ssid))) { - kfree(bss_desc); - return 0; + ret = 0; + goto done; } /* Exit Adhoc mode first */ -- 2.34.1