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Commit 744a3144 authored by Nguyen Dinh Phi's avatar Nguyen Dinh Phi Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
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cfg80211: Fix possible memory leak in function cfg80211_bss_update

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 upstream.

When we exceed the limit of BSS entries, this function will free the
new entry, however, at this time, it is the last door to access the
inputed ies, so these ies will be unreferenced objects and cause memory
leak.
Therefore we should free its ies before deallocating the new entry, beside
of dropping it from hidden_list.

Signed-off-by: default avatarNguyen Dinh Phi <phind.uet@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210628132334.851095-1-phind.uet@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: default avatarJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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