From: Jesper Juhl <jj@chaosbits.net>
Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2012 20:52:17 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: Net, mac80211: Fix resource leak in ieee80211_rx_h_mesh_fwding()
X-Git-Tag: v3.3-rc1~17^2~6^2~10
X-Git-Url: http://git.openpandora.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=74b8cc3d592e5e884123eb99960a9f064223eaab;p=pandora-kernel.git

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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