[PATCH 07/18] P2P: Fix possible memory leak in p2p_group_delete
Peer, Ilan
ilan.peer at intel.com
Sun Sep 11 05:50:33 PDT 2016
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jouni Malinen [mailto:j at w1.fi]
> Sent: Saturday, September 10, 2016 21:45
> To: Otcheretianski, Andrei <andrei.otcheretianski at intel.com>
> Cc: hostap at lists.infradead.org; Peer, Ilan <ilan.peer at intel.com>
> Subject: Re: [PATCH 07/18] P2P: Fix possible memory leak in
> p2p_group_delete
>
> On Mon, Sep 05, 2016 at 05:33:00PM +0300, andrei.otcheretianski at intel.com
> wrote:
> > In wpas_p2p_group_delete() free the pointer earlier, as the function
> > might return early.
>
> > diff --git a/wpa_supplicant/p2p_supplicant.c
> > b/wpa_supplicant/p2p_supplicant.c @@ -929,6 +929,10 @@ static int
> > wpas_p2p_group_delete(struct wpa_supplicant *wpa_s,
> > + os_free(wpa_s->p2p_group_common_freqs);
> > + wpa_s->p2p_group_common_freqs = NULL;
> > + wpa_s->p2p_group_common_freqs_num = 0;
>
> Hmm.. How exactly would this be fixing a memory leak when wpa_s-
> >p2p_group_common_freqs is freed in wpas_p2p_deinit() which would be
> called if the group interface got removed before reached the later point
> down here:
>
Agree. Please drop this patch.
Thanks,
Ilan.
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