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Subject[PATCH 5.7 056/166] nl80211: dont return err unconditionally in nl80211_start_ap()
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From: Luca Coelho <luciano.coelho@intel.com>

[ Upstream commit bc7a39b4272b9672d806d422b6850e8c1a09914c ]

When a memory leak was fixed, a return err was changed to goto err,
but, accidentally, the if (err) was removed, so now we always exit at
this point.

Fix it by adding if (err) back.

Fixes: 9951ebfcdf2b ("nl80211: fix potential leak in AP start")
Signed-off-by: Luca Coelho <luciano.coelho@intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/iwlwifi.20200626124931.871ba5b31eee.I97340172d92164ee92f3c803fe20a8a6e97714e1@changeid
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
net/wireless/nl80211.c | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/wireless/nl80211.c b/net/wireless/nl80211.c
index 692bcd35f8094..a56ede64e70fc 100644
--- a/net/wireless/nl80211.c
+++ b/net/wireless/nl80211.c
@@ -5004,7 +5004,8 @@ static int nl80211_start_ap(struct sk_buff *skb, struct genl_info *info)
err = nl80211_parse_he_obss_pd(
info->attrs[NL80211_ATTR_HE_OBSS_PD],
&params.he_obss_pd);
- goto out;
+ if (err)
+ goto out;
}

if (info->attrs[NL80211_ATTR_HE_BSS_COLOR]) {
--
2.25.1


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