This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
net: usb: Fix memory leak on Tx data path
to the 3.4-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
net-usb-fix-memory-leak-on-tx-data-path.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.4 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <[email protected]> know about it.
>From f8584e697469d706728e0ce61617b913da6ff44c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Hemant Kumar <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2012 18:17:54 +0000
Subject: net: usb: Fix memory leak on Tx data path
From: Hemant Kumar <[email protected]>
[ Upstream commit 39707c2a3ba5011038b363f84d37c8a98d2d9db1 ]
Driver anchors the tx urbs and defers the urb submission if
a transmit request comes when the interface is suspended.
Anchoring urb increments the urb reference count. These
deferred urbs are later accessed by calling usb_get_from_anchor()
for submission during interface resume. usb_get_from_anchor()
unanchors the urb but urb reference count remains same.
This causes the urb reference count to remain non-zero
after usb_free_urb() gets called and urb never gets freed.
Hence call usb_put_urb() after anchoring the urb to properly
balance the reference count for these deferred urbs. Also,
unanchor these deferred urbs during disconnect, to free them
up.
Signed-off-by: Hemant Kumar <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Oliver Neukum <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
---
drivers/net/usb/usbnet.c | 3 +++
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
--- a/drivers/net/usb/usbnet.c
+++ b/drivers/net/usb/usbnet.c
@@ -1158,6 +1158,7 @@ netdev_tx_t usbnet_start_xmit (struct sk
usb_anchor_urb(urb, &dev->deferred);
/* no use to process more packets */
netif_stop_queue(net);
+ usb_put_urb(urb);
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&dev->txq.lock, flags);
netdev_dbg(dev->net, "Delaying transmission for resumption\n");
goto deferred;
@@ -1299,6 +1300,8 @@ void usbnet_disconnect (struct usb_inter
cancel_work_sync(&dev->kevent);
+ usb_scuttle_anchored_urbs(&dev->deferred);
+
if (dev->driver_info->unbind)
dev->driver_info->unbind (dev, intf);
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are
queue-3.4/net-usb-fix-memory-leak-on-tx-data-path.patch
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