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authorDiksha Kumari <dikshakdevgan@gmail.com>2026-01-13 12:17:12 +0300
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2026-01-16 16:09:00 +0300
commitabe850d82c8cb72d28700673678724e779b1826e (patch)
tree0063dd6b178a9ec8a02e39b02dd187b10c8f762a /drivers
parent6cb679d8fe309e94f46943678d8ee965e4b42c5f (diff)
downloadlinux-abe850d82c8cb72d28700673678724e779b1826e.tar.xz
staging: rtl8723bs: fix memory leak on failure path
cfg80211_inform_bss_frame() may return NULL on failure. In that case, the allocated buffer 'buf' is not freed and the function returns early, leading to potential memory leak. Fix this by ensuring that 'buf' is freed on both success and failure paths. Signed-off-by: Diksha Kumari <dikshakdevgan@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Mukesh Kumar Chaurasiya <mkchauras@linux.ibm.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260113091712.7071-1-dikshakdevgan@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers')
-rw-r--r--drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/os_dep/ioctl_cfg80211.c3
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/os_dep/ioctl_cfg80211.c b/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/os_dep/ioctl_cfg80211.c
index 60edeae1cffe..476ab055e53e 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/os_dep/ioctl_cfg80211.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/os_dep/ioctl_cfg80211.c
@@ -315,9 +315,10 @@ struct cfg80211_bss *rtw_cfg80211_inform_bss(struct adapter *padapter, struct wl
len, notify_signal, GFP_ATOMIC);
if (unlikely(!bss))
- goto exit;
+ goto free_buf;
cfg80211_put_bss(wiphy, bss);
+free_buf:
kfree(buf);
exit: