[PATCH] USB Network driver infrastructure: Fix leak when usb_autopm_get_interface() returns less than zero in kevent().
From: Jesper Juhl <hidden>
Date: 2011-02-10 20:59:57
We'll leak the memory allocated to 'urb' in drivers/net/usb/usbnet.c:kevent() when we 'goto fail_lowmem' and the 'urb' variable goes out of scope while still completely unused. Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <redacted> --- usbnet.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) compile tested only.
diff --git a/drivers/net/usb/usbnet.c b/drivers/net/usb/usbnet.c
index ed9a416..95c41d5 100644
--- a/drivers/net/usb/usbnet.c
+++ b/drivers/net/usb/usbnet.c@@ -931,8 +931,10 @@ fail_halt: if (urb != NULL) { clear_bit (EVENT_RX_MEMORY, &dev->flags); status = usb_autopm_get_interface(dev->intf); - if (status < 0) + if (status < 0) { + usb_free_urb(urb); goto fail_lowmem; + } if (rx_submit (dev, urb, GFP_KERNEL) == -ENOLINK) resched = 0; usb_autopm_put_interface(dev->intf);
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