From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754467AbdK1Kek (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Nov 2017 05:34:40 -0500 Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:59214 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754451AbdK1Keh (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Nov 2017 05:34:37 -0500 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , stable@vger.kernel.org, Larry Finger , Kalle Valo Subject: [PATCH 4.9 039/138] rtlwifi: rtl8192ee: Fix memory leak when loading firmware Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2017 11:22:20 +0100 Message-Id: <20171128100547.606783235@linuxfoundation.org> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.15.0 In-Reply-To: <20171128100544.706504901@linuxfoundation.org> References: <20171128100544.706504901@linuxfoundation.org> User-Agent: quilt/0.65 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 4.9-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Larry Finger commit 519ce2f933fa14acf69d5c8cabcc18711943d629 upstream. In routine rtl92ee_set_fw_rsvdpagepkt(), the driver allocates an skb, but never calls rtl_cmd_send_packet(), which will free the buffer. All other rtlwifi drivers perform this operation correctly. This problem has been in the driver since it was included in the kernel. Fortunately, each firmware load only leaks 4 buffers, which likely explains why it has not previously been detected. Signed-off-by: Larry Finger Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/rtl8192ee/fw.c | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/rtl8192ee/fw.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/rtl8192ee/fw.c @@ -664,7 +664,7 @@ void rtl92ee_set_fw_rsvdpagepkt(struct i struct rtl_priv *rtlpriv = rtl_priv(hw); struct rtl_mac *mac = rtl_mac(rtl_priv(hw)); struct sk_buff *skb = NULL; - + bool rtstatus; u32 totalpacketlen; u8 u1rsvdpageloc[5] = { 0 }; bool b_dlok = false; @@ -727,7 +727,9 @@ void rtl92ee_set_fw_rsvdpagepkt(struct i memcpy((u8 *)skb_put(skb, totalpacketlen), &reserved_page_packet, totalpacketlen); - b_dlok = true; + rtstatus = rtl_cmd_send_packet(hw, skb); + if (rtstatus) + b_dlok = true; if (b_dlok) { RT_TRACE(rtlpriv, COMP_POWER, DBG_LOUD ,