This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled rtl8xxxu: prevent potential memory leak to the 5.9-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: rtl8xxxu-prevent-potential-memory-leak.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.9 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 3cc8c0146216828d0d5f21a1e9b2943abf6a0cd1 Author: Chris Chiu <chiu@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Sun Sep 6 12:04:24 2020 +0800 rtl8xxxu: prevent potential memory leak [ Upstream commit 86279456a4d47782398d3cb8193f78f672e36cac ] Free the skb if usb_submit_urb fails on rx_urb. And free the urb no matter usb_submit_urb succeeds or not in rtl8xxxu_submit_int_urb. Signed-off-by: Chris Chiu <chiu@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200906040424.22022-1-chiu@xxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtl8xxxu/rtl8xxxu_core.c b/drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtl8xxxu/rtl8xxxu_core.c index 19efae462a242..5cd7ef3625c5e 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtl8xxxu/rtl8xxxu_core.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtl8xxxu/rtl8xxxu_core.c @@ -5795,7 +5795,6 @@ static int rtl8xxxu_submit_int_urb(struct ieee80211_hw *hw) ret = usb_submit_urb(urb, GFP_KERNEL); if (ret) { usb_unanchor_urb(urb); - usb_free_urb(urb); goto error; } @@ -5804,6 +5803,7 @@ static int rtl8xxxu_submit_int_urb(struct ieee80211_hw *hw) rtl8xxxu_write32(priv, REG_USB_HIMR, val32); error: + usb_free_urb(urb); return ret; } @@ -6318,6 +6318,7 @@ static int rtl8xxxu_start(struct ieee80211_hw *hw) struct rtl8xxxu_priv *priv = hw->priv; struct rtl8xxxu_rx_urb *rx_urb; struct rtl8xxxu_tx_urb *tx_urb; + struct sk_buff *skb; unsigned long flags; int ret, i; @@ -6368,6 +6369,13 @@ static int rtl8xxxu_start(struct ieee80211_hw *hw) rx_urb->hw = hw; ret = rtl8xxxu_submit_rx_urb(priv, rx_urb); + if (ret) { + if (ret != -ENOMEM) { + skb = (struct sk_buff *)rx_urb->urb.context; + dev_kfree_skb(skb); + } + rtl8xxxu_queue_rx_urb(priv, rx_urb); + } } schedule_delayed_work(&priv->ra_watchdog, 2 * HZ);