Patch "ath10k: fix memory leak in rx ring buffer allocation" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

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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



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