This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
rtl8xxxu: prevent potential memory 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:
rtl8xxxu-prevent-potential-memory-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 95042a0bba6c2a41914b1daac1e6f873bd41999c
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.c b/drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtl8xxxu/rtl8xxxu.c
index 8254d4b22c50b..b8d387edde65c 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtl8xxxu/rtl8xxxu.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtl8xxxu/rtl8xxxu.c
@@ -5135,7 +5135,6 @@ 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;
}
@@ -5144,6 +5143,7 @@ static int rtl8xxxu_submit_int_urb(struct ieee80211_hw *hw)
rtl8xxxu_write32(priv, REG_USB_HIMR, val32);
error:
+ usb_free_urb(urb);
return ret;
}
@@ -5424,6 +5424,7 @@ 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;
@@ -5472,6 +5473,13 @@ 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:
/*
