From: Eric Biggers <ebigg...@google.com> commit 4f488fbca2a86cc7714a128952eead92cac279ab upstream.
In wiphy_new_nm(), if an error occurs after dev_set_name() and device_initialize() have already been called, it's necessary to call put_device() (via wiphy_free()) to avoid a memory leak. Reported-by: syzbot+7fddca22578bc67c3...@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Fixes: 1f87f7d3a3b4 ("cfg80211: add rfkill support") Cc: sta...@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebigg...@google.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.b...@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gre...@linuxfoundation.org> --- net/wireless/core.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/net/wireless/core.c +++ b/net/wireless/core.c @@ -478,7 +478,7 @@ use_default_name: &rdev->rfkill_ops, rdev); if (!rdev->rfkill) { - kfree(rdev); + wiphy_free(&rdev->wiphy); return NULL; }