This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
wimax/i2400m: Fix potential urb refcnt leak
to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
wimax-i2400m-fix-potential-urb-refcnt-leak.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit 5e027e4bbfc73b3cce34c4437fa470c6197a8f77
Author: Xiyu Yang <xiyuyang19@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed Apr 15 16:41:20 2020 +0800
wimax/i2400m: Fix potential urb refcnt leak
[ Upstream commit 7717cbec172c3554d470023b4020d5781961187e ]
i2400mu_bus_bm_wait_for_ack() invokes usb_get_urb(), which increases the
refcount of the "notif_urb".
When i2400mu_bus_bm_wait_for_ack() returns, local variable "notif_urb"
becomes invalid, so the refcount should be decreased to keep refcount
balanced.
The issue happens in all paths of i2400mu_bus_bm_wait_for_ack(), which
forget to decrease the refcnt increased by usb_get_urb(), causing a
refcnt leak.
Fix this issue by calling usb_put_urb() before the
i2400mu_bus_bm_wait_for_ack() returns.
Signed-off-by: Xiyu Yang <xiyuyang19@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Xin Tan <tanxin.ctf@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/drivers/net/wimax/i2400m/usb-fw.c b/drivers/net/wimax/i2400m/usb-fw.c
index e74664b84925e..4e4167976acf6 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wimax/i2400m/usb-fw.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wimax/i2400m/usb-fw.c
@@ -354,6 +354,7 @@ ssize_t i2400mu_bus_bm_wait_for_ack(struct i2400m *i2400m,
usb_autopm_put_interface(i2400mu->usb_iface);
d_fnend(8, dev, "(i2400m %p ack %p size %zu) = %ld\n",
i2400m, ack, ack_size, (long) result);
+ usb_put_urb(¬if_urb);
return result;
error_exceeded:
