Subject: Re: [PATCH] mac80211: fix incorrect error return path on tmp allocation failure

From: Johannes Berg <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2016 20:16:33 +0200

On Fri, 2016-10-28 at 19:08 +0100, Colin King wrote:
> From: Colin Ian King <[email-masked]>
> 
> The current exit path when tmp fails to be allocated is via the
> fail label which frees tfm2 which has not yet been allocated,
> which is problematic since tfm2 is not initialized and is a garbage
> pointer. Fix this by exiting directly to the return at the end
> of the function and hence avoiding the freeing of tfm2.

Yeah, thanks. Arnd beat you to the fix by about 8 hours, so I've
already applied his patch and sent an updated pull request :)

johannes