3.16.50-rc1 review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Shu Wang <shuwang@xxxxxxxxxx> commit d6f5f071f1e13cadecf8aef1faa7e5d6fbc9f33b upstream. Found this issue by kmemleak. xhci_run() did not check return val and free command for xhci_queue_vendor_command() unreferenced object 0xffff88011c0be500 (size 64): comm "kworker/0:1", pid 58, jiffies 4294670908 (age 50.420s) hex dump (first 32 bytes): backtrace: [<ffffffff8176166a>] kmemleak_alloc+0x4a/0xa0 [<ffffffff8121801a>] kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0xca/0x1d0 [<ffffffff81576bf4>] xhci_alloc_command+0x44/0x130 [<ffffffff8156f1cc>] xhci_run+0x4cc/0x630 [<ffffffff8153b84b>] usb_add_hcd+0x3bb/0x950 [<ffffffff8154eac8>] usb_hcd_pci_probe+0x188/0x500 [<ffffffff815851ac>] xhci_pci_probe+0x2c/0x220 [<ffffffff813d2ca5>] local_pci_probe+0x45/0xa0 [<ffffffff810a54e4>] work_for_cpu_fn+0x14/0x20 [<ffffffff810a8409>] process_one_work+0x149/0x360 [<ffffffff810a8d08>] worker_thread+0x1d8/0x3c0 [<ffffffff810ae7d9>] kthread+0x109/0x140 [<ffffffff8176d585>] ret_from_fork+0x25/0x30 [<ffffffffffffffff>] 0xffffffffffffffff Signed-off-by: Shu Wang <shuwang@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Mathias Nyman <mathias.nyman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [bwh: Backported to 3.16: adjust context] Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/usb/host/xhci.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/drivers/usb/host/xhci.c +++ b/drivers/usb/host/xhci.c @@ -662,8 +662,10 @@ int xhci_run(struct usb_hcd *hcd) command = xhci_alloc_command(xhci, false, false, GFP_KERNEL); if (!command) return -ENOMEM; - xhci_queue_vendor_command(xhci, command, 0, 0, 0, + ret = xhci_queue_vendor_command(xhci, command, 0, 0, 0, TRB_TYPE(TRB_NEC_GET_FW)); + if (ret) + xhci_free_command(xhci, command); } xhci_dbg_trace(xhci, trace_xhci_dbg_init, "Finished xhci_run for USB2 roothub");