On 27-07-15 12:28, Kalle Valo wrote:
Mike Looijmans <mike.looijmans@xxxxxxxx> writes:
Fixes commit eae79b4f3e82ca63a53478a161b190a0d38fe526 ("rsi: fix memory leak
in rsi_load_ta_instructions()") which stopped the driver from functioning.
You can abbreviate the commit id:
Fixes commit eae79b4f3e82 ("rsi: fix memory leak in
rsi_load_ta_instructions()") which stopped the driver from functioning.
Firmware data has been allocated using vmalloc(), resulting in memory
that cannot be used for DMA. Hence the firmware was first copied to a
buffer allocated with kmalloc() in the original code. This patch reverts
the commit and only calls "kfree()" to release the buffer after sending
the data. This fixes the memory leak without breaking the driver.
Add a comment to the kmemdup() calls to explain why this is done.
Tested on a Topic Miami-Florida board which contains the rsi SDIO chip.
Also added the same kfree() call to the USB glue driver. This was not
tested on actual hardware though, as I only have the SDIO version.
Signed-off-by: Mike Looijmans <mike.looijmans@xxxxxxxx>
Add this before Signed-off-by line:
Fixes: eae79b4f3e82 ("rsi: fix memory leak in rsi_load_ta_instructions()")
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Also no need to send email to stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx list, this line is
enough and the stable team will pick the commit automatically.
I wondered why that happened, and just noticed that git send-email
automatically added this to the recipients. So it happened for v2 as well,
sorry for that.
Kind regards,
Mike Looijmans
System Expert
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