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Subject: Re: [PATCH] cfg80211: free the object allocated in
 wiphy_apply_custom_regulatory
From:   Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
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On Fri, 2021-07-23 at 17:13 +0800, Dongliang Mu wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 23, 2021 at 4:37 PM Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> wrote:
> > 
> > On Fri, 2021-07-23 at 13:09 +0800, Dongliang Mu wrote:
> > > The commit beee24695157 ("cfg80211: Save the regulatory domain when
> > > setting custom regulatory") forgets to free the newly allocated regd
> > > object.
> > 
> > Not really? It's not forgetting it, it just saves it?
> 
> Yes, it saves the regd object in the function wiphy_apply_custom_regulatory.

Right.

> But its parent function - mac80211_hwsim_new_radio forgets to free
> this object when the ieee80211_register_hw fails.

But why is this specific to mac80211-hwsim?

Any other code calling wiphy_apply_custom_regulatory() and then failing
the subsequent wiphy_register() or otherwise calling wiphy_free() will
run into the same situation.

So why wouldn't we free this in wiphy_free(), if it exists?

johannes