[PATCH] wifi: mt76: fix potential memory leak in mt76_wmac_probe()
Abdun Nihaal
abdun.nihaal at gmail.com
Wed Jul 9 07:55:30 PDT 2025
In mt76_wmac_probe(), when the mt76_alloc_device() call succeeds, memory
is allocated for both struct ieee80211_hw and a workqueue. However, on
the error path, the workqueue is not freed. Fix that by calling
mt76_free_device() on the error path.
Fixes: c8846e101502 ("mt76: add driver for MT7603E and MT7628/7688")
Signed-off-by: Abdun Nihaal <abdun.nihaal at gmail.com>
---
This patch is compile tested only. Not tested on real hardware.
drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/mt7603/soc.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/mt7603/soc.c b/drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/mt7603/soc.c
index 08590aa68356..1dd372372048 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/mt7603/soc.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/mt7603/soc.c
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ mt76_wmac_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
return 0;
error:
- ieee80211_free_hw(mt76_hw(dev));
+ mt76_free_device(mdev);
return ret;
}
--
2.43.0
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