ieee802154: Fix memory leak in ieee802154_add_iface()

Fix a memory leak in the ieee802154_add_iface() error handling path. Detected by Coverity: CID 710490. Signed-off-by: Christian Engelmayer <cengelma@gmx.at> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
mariux64 · Jan 14, 2014 · 267d29a · 267d29a
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diff --git a/net/ieee802154/nl-phy.c b/net/ieee802154/nl-phy.c
@@ -221,8 +221,10 @@ int ieee802154_add_iface(struct sk_buff *skb, struct genl_info *info)
 
 	if (info->attrs[IEEE802154_ATTR_DEV_TYPE]) {
 		type = nla_get_u8(info->attrs[IEEE802154_ATTR_DEV_TYPE]);
-		if (type >= __IEEE802154_DEV_MAX)
-			return -EINVAL;
+		if (type >= __IEEE802154_DEV_MAX) {
+			rc = -EINVAL;
+			goto nla_put_failure;
+		}
 	}
 
 	dev = phy->add_iface(phy, devname, type);