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[RFC,3/3] usbnet: Fix memory leak when rx_submit() fails

Message ID 20170919161522.995-3-dianders@chromium.org
State RFC, archived
Delegated to: David Miller
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Series [RFC,1/3] usbnet: Get rid of spammy usbnet "kevent X may have been dropped" | expand

Commit Message

Doug Anderson Sept. 19, 2017, 4:15 p.m. UTC
If rx_submit() returns an error code then nobody calls usb_free_urb().
That means it's leaked.

NOTE: This problem was found solely by code inspection and not due to
any failing test cases.

Signed-off-by: Douglas Anderson <dianders@chromium.org>
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 drivers/net/usb/usbnet.c | 9 ++++++---
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

Comments

Bjørn Mork Sept. 19, 2017, 5:41 p.m. UTC | #1
Douglas Anderson <dianders@chromium.org> writes:

> If rx_submit() returns an error code then nobody calls usb_free_urb().
> That means it's leaked.

Nope.  rx_submit() will call usb_free_urb() before returning an error:


static int rx_submit (struct usbnet *dev, struct urb *urb, gfp_t flags)
..
	if (!skb) {
		netif_dbg(dev, rx_err, dev->net, "no rx skb\n");
		usbnet_defer_kevent (dev, EVENT_RX_MEMORY);
		usb_free_urb (urb);
		return -ENOMEM;
	}
..
	if (retval) {
		dev_kfree_skb_any (skb);
		usb_free_urb (urb);
	}





Bjørn
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diff --git a/drivers/net/usb/usbnet.c b/drivers/net/usb/usbnet.c
index e72547d8d0e6..4c067aaeea5a 100644
--- a/drivers/net/usb/usbnet.c
+++ b/drivers/net/usb/usbnet.c
@@ -1182,9 +1182,12 @@  usbnet_deferred_kevent (struct work_struct *work)
 					usb_free_urb(urb);
 					goto fail_lowmem;
 				}
-				if (rx_submit (dev, urb, GFP_KERNEL) ==
-				    -ENOLINK)
-					resched = 0;
+				status = rx_submit (dev, urb, GFP_KERNEL);
+				if (status) {
+					usb_free_urb(urb);
+					if (status == -ENOLINK)
+						resched = 0;
+				}
 				usb_autopm_put_interface(dev->intf);
 fail_lowmem:
 				if (resched)