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SubjectRe: [RFT PATCH v2] xhci: Fix memory leak when caching protocol extended capability PSI tables
On Wed, Feb 12, 2020 at 11:01:52AM +0200, Mathias Nyman wrote:
> On 11.2.2020 18.13, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 11, 2020 at 04:12:40PM +0100, Marek Szyprowski wrote:
> >> Hi Mathias,
> >>
> >> On 11.02.2020 16:01, Mathias Nyman wrote:
> >>> xhci driver assumed that xHC controllers have at most one custom
> >>> supported speed table (PSI) for all usb 3.x ports.
> >>> Memory was allocated for one PSI table under the xhci hub structure.
> >>>
> >>> Turns out this is not the case, some controllers have a separate
> >>> "supported protocol capability" entry with a PSI table for each port.
> >>> This means each usb3 roothub port can in theory support different custom
> >>> speeds.
> >>>
> >>> To solve this, cache all supported protocol capabilities with their PSI
> >>> tables in an array, and add pointers to the xhci port structure so that
> >>> every port points to its capability entry in the array.
> >>>
> >>> When creating the SuperSpeedPlus USB Device Capability BOS descriptor
> >>> for the xhci USB 3.1 roothub we for now will use only data from the
> >>> first USB 3.1 capable protocol capability entry in the array.
> >>> This could be improved later, this patch focuses resolving
> >>> the memory leak.
> >>>
> >>> Reported-by: Paul Menzel <pmenzel@molgen.mpg.de>
> >>> Reported-by: Sajja Venkateswara Rao <VenkateswaraRao.Sajja@amd.com>
> >>> Fixes: 47189098f8be ("xhci: parse xhci protocol speed ID list for usb 3.1 usage")
> >>> Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v4.4+
> >>> Signed-off-by: Mathias Nyman <mathias.nyman@linux.intel.com>
> >>
> >> Tested-by: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com>
> >
> > Nice!
> >
> > Should I revert the first and then apply this?
> >
>
> Yes, please

Now done, thanks.

greg k-h

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