From 0ddcff49b672239dda94d70d0fcf50317a9f4b51 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "weiyongjun (A)" Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2018 02:23:34 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] mac80211_hwsim: fix possible memory leak in hwsim_new_radio_nl() Git-commit: 0ddcff49b672239dda94d70d0fcf50317a9f4b51 Patch-mainline: v4.16-rc1 References: CVE-2018-8087,bsc#1085053 'hwname' is malloced in hwsim_new_radio_nl() and should be freed before leaving from the error handling cases, otherwise it will cause memory leak. Fixes: ff4dd73dd2b4 ("mac80211_hwsim: check HWSIM_ATTR_RADIO_NAME length") Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun Reviewed-by: Ben Hutchings Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg Acked-by: Takashi Iwai --- drivers/net/wireless/mac80211_hwsim.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/drivers/net/wireless/mac80211_hwsim.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/mac80211_hwsim.c @@ -3148,8 +3148,10 @@ static int hwsim_new_radio_nl(struct sk_ if (info->attrs[HWSIM_ATTR_REG_CUSTOM_REG]) { u32 idx = nla_get_u32(info->attrs[HWSIM_ATTR_REG_CUSTOM_REG]); - if (idx >= ARRAY_SIZE(hwsim_world_regdom_custom)) + if (idx >= ARRAY_SIZE(hwsim_world_regdom_custom)) { + kfree(hwname); return -EINVAL; + } param.regd = hwsim_world_regdom_custom[idx]; }