mac80211: Fix memory leak in ieee80211_if_write()

Fix memory leak and use kmalloc() instead of kzalloc() as we are going
to overwrite the allocated buffer.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/net/mac80211/debugfs_netdev.c b/net/mac80211/debugfs_netdev.c
index 9affe2cd185f..b4ddb2f83914 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/debugfs_netdev.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/debugfs_netdev.c
@@ -48,20 +48,24 @@ static ssize_t ieee80211_if_write(
         ssize_t (*write)(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *, const char *, int))
 {
         u8 *buf;
-        ssize_t ret = -ENODEV;
+        ssize_t ret;
 
-        buf = kzalloc(count, GFP_KERNEL);
+        buf = kmalloc(count, GFP_KERNEL);
         if (!buf)
                 return -ENOMEM;
 
+        ret = -EFAULT;
         if (copy_from_user(buf, userbuf, count))
-                return -EFAULT;
+                goto freebuf;
 
+        ret = -ENODEV;
         rtnl_lock();
         if (sdata->dev->reg_state == NETREG_REGISTERED)
                 ret = (*write)(sdata, buf, count);
         rtnl_unlock();
 
+freebuf:
+        kfree(buf);
         return ret;
 }