This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled rtlwifi: fix memory leak for USB device 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: rtlwifi-fix-memory-leak-for-usb-device.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. >From 17bc55864f81dd730d05f09b1641312a7990d636 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Peter Wu <peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 7 Dec 2015 01:07:31 +0100 Subject: rtlwifi: fix memory leak for USB device From: Peter Wu <peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> commit 17bc55864f81dd730d05f09b1641312a7990d636 upstream. Free skb for received frames with a wrong checksum. This can happen pretty rapidly, exhausting all memory. This fixes a memleak (detected with kmemleak). Originally found while using monitor mode, but it also appears during managed mode (once the link is up). Signed-off-by: Peter Wu <peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> ACKed-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/usb.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) --- a/drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/usb.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/usb.c @@ -531,6 +531,8 @@ static void _rtl_usb_rx_process_noagg(st ieee80211_rx(hw, skb); else dev_kfree_skb_any(skb); + } else { + dev_kfree_skb_any(skb); } } Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.4/rtlwifi-fix-memory-leak-for-usb-device.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html