Re: [PATCH 4.14 097/338] wifi: mac80211: fix memory leak in ieee80211_if_add()

On Mon, Jan 16, 2023 at 06:14:35PM +0100, Johannes Berg wrote:

On Mon, 2023-01-16 at 15:49 +0000, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:

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From: Zhengchao Shao shaozhengchao@huawei.com

[ Upstream commit 13e5afd3d773c6fc6ca2b89027befaaaa1ea7293 ]

When register_netdevice() failed in ieee80211_if_add(), ndev->tstats isn't released. Fix it.

Please drop this wherever you still can - we just reverted it because it was actually based on broken analysis.

Thanks, will drop it from 5.4 and older queues.

greg k-h