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USB Network driver infrastructure: Fix leak when usb_autopm_get_interface() returns less than zero in kevent().

Message ID alpine.LNX.2.00.1102102152450.26035@swampdragon.chaosbits.net
State Accepted, archived
Delegated to: David Miller
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Commit Message

Jesper Juhl Feb. 10, 2011, 8:58 p.m. UTC
We'll leak the memory allocated to 'urb' in 
drivers/net/usb/usbnet.c:kevent() when we 'goto fail_lowmem' and the 'urb' 
variable goes out of scope while still completely unused.

Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jj@chaosbits.net>
---
 usbnet.c |    4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

 compile tested only.

Comments

David Miller Feb. 13, 2011, 7:21 p.m. UTC | #1
From: Jesper Juhl <jj@chaosbits.net>
Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2011 21:58:45 +0100 (CET)

> We'll leak the memory allocated to 'urb' in 
> drivers/net/usb/usbnet.c:kevent() when we 'goto fail_lowmem' and the 'urb' 
> variable goes out of scope while still completely unused.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jj@chaosbits.net>

Applied.
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Patch

diff --git a/drivers/net/usb/usbnet.c b/drivers/net/usb/usbnet.c
index ed9a416..95c41d5 100644
--- a/drivers/net/usb/usbnet.c
+++ b/drivers/net/usb/usbnet.c
@@ -931,8 +931,10 @@  fail_halt:
 		if (urb != NULL) {
 			clear_bit (EVENT_RX_MEMORY, &dev->flags);
 			status = usb_autopm_get_interface(dev->intf);
-			if (status < 0)
+			if (status < 0) {
+				usb_free_urb(urb);
 				goto fail_lowmem;
+			}
 			if (rx_submit (dev, urb, GFP_KERNEL) == -ENOLINK)
 				resched = 0;
 			usb_autopm_put_interface(dev->intf);