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| author | Peter Wu <peter@lekensteyn.nl> | 2015-12-07 01:07:31 +0100 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2016-01-31 11:28:58 -0800 |
| commit | 7e92cfc4783b49d077774d78ea5485aa82dc4953 (patch) | |
| tree | d9bfe17741407d34e08c19b3d0dc4f48eb196bf7 /drivers | |
| parent | ee8d049d0c7bbd5d739f3e873c4e66123d4da32c (diff) | |
| download | lwn-7e92cfc4783b49d077774d78ea5485aa82dc4953.tar.gz lwn-7e92cfc4783b49d077774d78ea5485aa82dc4953.zip | |
rtlwifi: fix memory leak for USB device
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: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/usb.c | 2 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/usb.c b/drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/usb.c index 2721cf89fb16..aac1ed3f7bb4 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/usb.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/realtek/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); } } |