Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | From | Ben Hutchings <> | Date | Mon, 08 Feb 2016 23:53:51 +0000 | Subject | [PATCH 3.2 11/87] rtlwifi: fix memory leak for USB device |
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3.2.77-rc1 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> [bwh: Backported to 3.2: adjust filename, context] Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> --- drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/usb.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/usb.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/usb.c @@ -500,6 +500,8 @@ static void _rtl_usb_rx_process_noagg(st } else { dev_kfree_skb_any(skb); } + } else { + dev_kfree_skb_any(skb); } }
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