This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
wifi: wilc1000: fix potential memory leak in wilc_mac_xmit()
to the 6.1-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:
wifi-wilc1000-fix-potential-memory-leak-in-wilc_mac_.patch
and it can be found in the queue-6.1 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit f3b299fa232093d07cb5ab1dac458aa0646fdcc7
Author: Zhang Changzhong <zhangchangzhong@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu Nov 17 19:36:03 2022 +0800
wifi: wilc1000: fix potential memory leak in wilc_mac_xmit()
[ Upstream commit deb962ec9e1c9a81babd3d37542ad4bd6ac3396e ]
The wilc_mac_xmit() returns NETDEV_TX_OK without freeing skb, add
dev_kfree_skb() to fix it. Compile tested only.
Fixes: c5c77ba18ea6 ("staging: wilc1000: Add SDIO/SPI 802.11 driver")
Signed-off-by: Zhang Changzhong <zhangchangzhong@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@xxxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1668684964-48622-1-git-send-email-zhangchangzhong@xxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/microchip/wilc1000/netdev.c b/drivers/net/wireless/microchip/wilc1000/netdev.c
index 9b319a455b96d..6f3ae0dff77ce 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/microchip/wilc1000/netdev.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/microchip/wilc1000/netdev.c
@@ -730,6 +730,7 @@ netdev_tx_t wilc_mac_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *ndev)
if (skb->dev != ndev) {
netdev_err(ndev, "Packet not destined to this device\n");
+ dev_kfree_skb(skb);
return NETDEV_TX_OK;
}
