This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled rtl8xxxu: prevent potential memory leak to the 4.9-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-4.9 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 7b7103315779f7bf83c1736afe626b2385ed582d 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 18d5984b78dab..e73613b9f2f59 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtl8xxxu/rtl8xxxu_core.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtl8xxxu/rtl8xxxu_core.c @@ -5422,7 +5422,6 @@ 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; } @@ -5431,6 +5430,7 @@ static int rtl8xxxu_submit_int_urb(struct ieee80211_hw *hw) rtl8xxxu_write32(priv, REG_USB_HIMR, val32); error: + usb_free_urb(urb); return ret; } @@ -5756,6 +5756,7 @@ 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; @@ -5806,6 +5807,13 @@ 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); + } } exit: /*