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mwifiex: fix memory leak issue for ibss join

For IBSS join if the requested SSID matches current SSID,
it returns without freeing the allocated beacon IE buffer.

Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 3.10+
Signed-off-by: Ujjal Roy <royujjal@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Bing Zhao <bzhao@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Ujjal Roy 11 years ago
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1 changed files with 2 additions and 2 deletions
  1. 2 2
      drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/sta_ioctl.c

+ 2 - 2
drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/sta_ioctl.c

@@ -319,8 +319,8 @@ int mwifiex_bss_start(struct mwifiex_private *priv, struct cfg80211_bss *bss,
 		if (bss_desc && bss_desc->ssid.ssid_len &&
 		    (!mwifiex_ssid_cmp(&priv->curr_bss_params.bss_descriptor.
 				       ssid, &bss_desc->ssid))) {
-			kfree(bss_desc);
-			return 0;
+			ret = 0;
+			goto done;
 		}
 
 		/* Exit Adhoc mode first */