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rtlwifi: Don't leak on error in _rtl_usb_receive()

Message ID alpine.LNX.2.00.1212262145220.23814@swampdragon.chaosbits.net
State Not Applicable, archived
Delegated to: David Miller
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Commit Message

Jesper Juhl Dec. 26, 2012, 8:51 p.m. UTC
We fail to release 'urb' if '_rtl_prep_rx_urb()' fails in
_rtl_usb_receive().
This patch should take care of the leak.

Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jj@chaosbits.net>
---
 drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/usb.c |    1 +
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

 note: compile tested only.

Comments

Larry Finger Dec. 26, 2012, 9:15 p.m. UTC | #1
On 12/26/2012 02:51 PM, Jesper Juhl wrote:
> We fail to release 'urb' if '_rtl_prep_rx_urb()' fails in
> _rtl_usb_receive().
> This patch should take care of the leak.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jj@chaosbits.net>
> ---
>   drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/usb.c |    1 +
>   1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>
>   note: compile tested only.

This looks correct to me. I have never seen that RT_TRACE() fire, thus such an 
error must be uncommon, at least on my system.

Acked-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>

Thanks,

Larry

>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/usb.c b/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/usb.c
> index 29f0969..75c29e6 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/usb.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/usb.c
> @@ -640,6 +640,7 @@ static int _rtl_usb_receive(struct ieee80211_hw *hw)
>   			RT_TRACE(rtlpriv, COMP_USB, DBG_EMERG,
>   				 "Failed to prep_rx_urb!!\n");
>   			err = PTR_ERR(skb);
> +			usb_free_urb(urb);
>   			goto err_out;
>   		}
>
>

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Patch

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/usb.c b/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/usb.c
index 29f0969..75c29e6 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/usb.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/usb.c
@@ -640,6 +640,7 @@  static int _rtl_usb_receive(struct ieee80211_hw *hw)
 			RT_TRACE(rtlpriv, COMP_USB, DBG_EMERG,
 				 "Failed to prep_rx_urb!!\n");
 			err = PTR_ERR(skb);
+			usb_free_urb(urb);
 			goto err_out;
 		}