From f9a5c358c8d26fed0cc45f2afc64633d4ba21dff Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Nguyen Dinh Phi <phind.uet@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2021 21:23:34 +0800
Subject: [PATCH] cfg80211: Fix possible memory leak in function cfg80211_bss_update
Git-commit: f9a5c358c8d26fed0cc45f2afc64633d4ba21dff
Patch-mainline: v5.14-rc4
References: git-fixes

When we exceed the limit of BSS entries, this function will free the
new entry, however, at this time, it is the last door to access the
inputed ies, so these ies will be unreferenced objects and cause memory
leak.
Therefore we should free its ies before deallocating the new entry, beside
of dropping it from hidden_list.

Signed-off-by: Nguyen Dinh Phi <phind.uet@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210628132334.851095-1-phind.uet@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Acked-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>

---
 net/wireless/scan.c | 6 ++----
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/wireless/scan.c b/net/wireless/scan.c
index f03c7ac8e184..7897b1478c3c 100644
--- a/net/wireless/scan.c
+++ b/net/wireless/scan.c
@@ -1754,16 +1754,14 @@ cfg80211_bss_update(struct cfg80211_registered_device *rdev,
 			 * be grouped with this beacon for updates ...
 			 */
 			if (!cfg80211_combine_bsses(rdev, new)) {
-				kfree(new);
+				bss_ref_put(rdev, new);
 				goto drop;
 			}
 		}
 
 		if (rdev->bss_entries >= bss_entries_limit &&
 		    !cfg80211_bss_expire_oldest(rdev)) {
-			if (!list_empty(&new->hidden_list))
-				list_del(&new->hidden_list);
-			kfree(new);
+			bss_ref_put(rdev, new);
 			goto drop;
 		}
 
-- 
2.26.2