From 20880e8936e467fe30d79aa838c8d24b7073648f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2007 16:17:03 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] NET: mac80211: fix inappropriate memory freeing

Fix inappropriate memory freeing in case of requested rate_control_ops was
not found.  In this case the list head entity is going to be accidentally
wasted.

Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Michael Wu <flamingice@sourmilk.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
---
 net/mac80211/ieee80211_rate.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/mac80211/ieee80211_rate.c b/net/mac80211/ieee80211_rate.c
index 3260a4a0ecc..c3f27839374 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/ieee80211_rate.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/ieee80211_rate.c
@@ -60,11 +60,11 @@ void ieee80211_rate_control_unregister(struct rate_control_ops *ops)
 	list_for_each_entry(alg, &rate_ctrl_algs, list) {
 		if (alg->ops == ops) {
 			list_del(&alg->list);
+			kfree(alg);
 			break;
 		}
 	}
 	mutex_unlock(&rate_ctrl_mutex);
-	kfree(alg);
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(ieee80211_rate_control_unregister);
 
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2.41.1