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[4.2.y-ckt,022/268] rtlwifi: fix memory leak for USB device

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Kamal Mostafa Jan. 27, 2016, 8:31 p.m. UTC 
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>
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 drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/usb.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
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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);
 	}
 }