Re: mwifiex: fix memory leak in mwifiex_save_hidden_ssid_channels()

From: Kalle Valo
Date: Thu Nov 17 2016 - 06:13:37 EST


Ricky Liang <jcliang@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> kmemleak reports memory leak in mwifiex_save_hidden_ssid_channels():
>
> unreferenced object 0xffffffc0a2914780 (size 192):
> comm "ksdioirqd/mmc2", pid 2004, jiffies 4307182506 (age 820.684s)
> hex dump (first 32 bytes):
> 00 06 47 49 4e 2d 32 67 01 03 c8 60 6c 03 01 40 ..GIN-2g...`l..@
> 07 10 54 57 20 34 04 1e 64 05 24 84 03 24 95 04 ..TW 4..d.$..$..
> backtrace:
> [<ffffffc0003375f4>] create_object+0x164/0x2b4
> [<ffffffc0008e3530>] kmemleak_alloc+0x50/0x88
> [<ffffffc000335120>] __kmalloc_track_caller+0x1bc/0x264
> [<ffffffc00030899c>] kmemdup+0x38/0x64
> [<ffffffbffc2311cc>] mwifiex_fill_new_bss_desc+0x3c/0x130 [mwifiex]
> [<ffffffbffc22ee9c>] mwifiex_save_curr_bcn+0x4ec/0x640 [mwifiex]
> [<ffffffbffc22f45c>] mwifiex_handle_event_ext_scan_report+0x1d4/0x268 [mwifiex]
> [<ffffffbffc2375d0>] mwifiex_process_sta_event+0x378/0x898 [mwifiex]
> [<ffffffbffc224dc8>] mwifiex_process_event+0x1a8/0x1e8 [mwifiex]
> [<ffffffbffc2228f0>] mwifiex_main_process+0x258/0x534 [mwifiex]
> [<ffffffbffc258858>] 0xffffffbffc258858
> [<ffffffc00071ee90>] process_sdio_pending_irqs+0xf8/0x160
> [<ffffffc00071efdc>] sdio_irq_thread+0x9c/0x1a4
> [<ffffffc000240d08>] kthread+0xf4/0x100
> [<ffffffc0002043fc>] ret_from_fork+0xc/0x50
> [<ffffffffffffffff>] 0xffffffffffffffff
>
> Signed-off-by: Ricky Liang <jcliang@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Amitkumar Karwar <akarwar@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Brian Norris <briannorris@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

Patch applied to wireless-drivers-next.git, thanks.

5ff262229378 mwifiex: fix memory leak in mwifiex_save_hidden_ssid_channels()

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