staging: wilc1000: fix memory leak in wilc_add_rx_gtk
authorGustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
Sat, 22 Dec 2018 09:08:15 +0000 (03:08 -0600)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Tue, 15 Jan 2019 15:31:09 +0000 (16:31 +0100)
In case *mode* happens to be different than WILC_AP_MODE and
WILC_STATION_MODE, gtk_key is not released, hence leanding
to a memory leak. So, in this case it is safer to release
gtk_key just before returning to callers.

Addresses-Coverity-ID: 1476020 ("Resource leak")
Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/staging/wilc1000/host_interface.c

index 7acb790d850b282ba5db3a1f737ff37535ba28bf..3d0badc34825f27fb34addab44eec4c4e264455a 100644 (file)
@@ -1744,7 +1744,6 @@ int wilc_add_rx_gtk(struct wilc_vif *vif, const u8 *rx_gtk, u8 gtk_key_len,
                result = wilc_send_config_pkt(vif, WILC_SET_CFG, wid_list,
                                              ARRAY_SIZE(wid_list),
                                              wilc_get_vif_idx(vif));
-               kfree(gtk_key);
        } else if (mode == WILC_STATION_MODE) {
                struct wid wid;
 
@@ -1754,9 +1753,9 @@ int wilc_add_rx_gtk(struct wilc_vif *vif, const u8 *rx_gtk, u8 gtk_key_len,
                wid.val = (u8 *)gtk_key;
                result = wilc_send_config_pkt(vif, WILC_SET_CFG, &wid, 1,
                                              wilc_get_vif_idx(vif));
-               kfree(gtk_key);
        }
 
+       kfree(gtk_key);
        return result;
 }