This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled ath10k: fix memory leak in rx ring buffer allocation 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: ath10k-fix-memory-leak-in-rx-ring-buffer-allocation.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 f35a7f91f66af528b3ee1921de16bea31d347ab0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Rakesh Pillai <pillair@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2017 16:03:37 +0530 Subject: ath10k: fix memory leak in rx ring buffer allocation From: Rakesh Pillai <pillair@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> commit f35a7f91f66af528b3ee1921de16bea31d347ab0 upstream. The rx ring buffers are added to a hash table if firmware support full rx reorder. If the full rx reorder support flag is not set before allocating the rx ring buffers, none of the buffers are added to the hash table. There is a race condition between rx ring refill and rx buffer replenish from napi poll. The interrupts are enabled in hif start, before the rx ring is refilled during init. We replenish buffers from napi poll due to the interrupts which get enabled after hif start. Hence before the entire rx ring is refilled during the init, the napi poll replenishes a few buffers in steps of 100 buffers per attempt. During this rx ring replenish from napi poll, the rx reorder flag has not been set due to which the replenished buffers are not added to the hash table Set the rx full reorder support flag before we allocate the rx ring buffer to avoid the memory leak. Signed-off-by: Rakesh Pillai <pillair@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/core.c | 12 ++++++------ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/core.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/core.c @@ -1607,6 +1607,12 @@ int ath10k_core_start(struct ath10k *ar, goto err_wmi_detach; } + /* If firmware indicates Full Rx Reorder support it must be used in a + * slightly different manner. Let HTT code know. + */ + ar->htt.rx_ring.in_ord_rx = !!(test_bit(WMI_SERVICE_RX_FULL_REORDER, + ar->wmi.svc_map)); + status = ath10k_htt_rx_alloc(&ar->htt); if (status) { ath10k_err(ar, "failed to alloc htt rx: %d\n", status); @@ -1669,12 +1675,6 @@ int ath10k_core_start(struct ath10k *ar, goto err_hif_stop; } - /* If firmware indicates Full Rx Reorder support it must be used in a - * slightly different manner. Let HTT code know. - */ - ar->htt.rx_ring.in_ord_rx = !!(test_bit(WMI_SERVICE_RX_FULL_REORDER, - ar->wmi.svc_map)); - status = ath10k_htt_rx_ring_refill(ar); if (status) { ath10k_err(ar, "failed to refill htt rx ring: %d\n", status); Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from pillair@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.4/ath10k-fix-memory-leak-in-rx-ring-buffer-allocation.patch