From 20880e8936e467fe30d79aa838c8d24b7073648f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Cyrill Gorcunov Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2007 16:17:03 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] NET: mac80211: fix inappropriate memory freeing Fix inappropriate memory freeing in case of requested rate_control_ops was not found. In this case the list head entity is going to be accidentally wasted. Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov Acked-by: Michael Wu Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: John W. Linville --- net/mac80211/ieee80211_rate.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/net/mac80211/ieee80211_rate.c b/net/mac80211/ieee80211_rate.c index 3260a4a0ecc5..c3f278393741 100644 --- a/net/mac80211/ieee80211_rate.c +++ b/net/mac80211/ieee80211_rate.c @@ -60,11 +60,11 @@ void ieee80211_rate_control_unregister(struct rate_control_ops *ops) list_for_each_entry(alg, &rate_ctrl_algs, list) { if (alg->ops == ops) { list_del(&alg->list); + kfree(alg); break; } } mutex_unlock(&rate_ctrl_mutex); - kfree(alg); } EXPORT_SYMBOL(ieee80211_rate_control_unregister); -- 2.39.2