Commit e6436be2 authored by Johannes Berg's avatar Johannes Berg

mac80211: fix statistics leak if dev_alloc_name() fails

In the case that dev_alloc_name() fails, e.g. because the name was
given by the user and already exists, we need to clean up properly
and free the per-CPU statistics. Fix that.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 5a490510 ("mac80211: use per-CPU TX/RX statistics")
Signed-off-by: default avatarJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
parent 8f815cdd
......@@ -1761,7 +1761,7 @@ int ieee80211_if_add(struct ieee80211_local *local, const char *name,
ret = dev_alloc_name(ndev, ndev->name);
if (ret < 0) {
free_netdev(ndev);
ieee80211_if_free(ndev);
return ret;
}
......@@ -1847,7 +1847,7 @@ int ieee80211_if_add(struct ieee80211_local *local, const char *name,
ret = register_netdevice(ndev);
if (ret) {
free_netdev(ndev);
ieee80211_if_free(ndev);
return ret;
}
}
......
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