Re: [PATCH] net: usb: Fix memory leak on Tx data path

[David Miller]

From: Oliver Neukum <oneukum@xxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2012 09:39:16 +0200

> On Thursday 25 October 2012 21:17:54 Hemant Kumar wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> Good catch. This needs to go into stable, too.
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Hemant Kumar <hemantk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Oliver Neukum <oneukum@xxxxxxx>

Applied and queued up for -stable.
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