| From | Kamal Mostafa <> | Subject | [PATCH 4.2.y-ckt 022/268] rtlwifi: fix memory leak for USB device | Date | Wed, 27 Jan 2016 12:31:23 -0800 |
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4.2.8-ckt3 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Peter Wu <peter@lekensteyn.nl>
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@lekensteyn.nl> ACKed-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org> Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal@canonical.com> --- drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/usb.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/usb.c b/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/usb.c index 2721cf8..aac1ed3 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/usb.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/usb.c @@ -531,6 +531,8 @@ static void _rtl_usb_rx_process_noagg(struct ieee80211_hw *hw, ieee80211_rx(hw, skb); else dev_kfree_skb_any(skb); + } else { + dev_kfree_skb_any(skb); } } -- 1.9.1
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