Thread (6 messages) 6 messages, 3 authors, 2017-02-03

Re: [PATCH] r8152: Allocate interrupt buffer as part of struct r8152

From: Eric Dumazet <hidden>
Date: 2017-01-31 19:54:39
Also in: lkml

On Tue, 2017-01-31 at 11:06 -0800, Guenter Roeck wrote:
When unloading the r8152 driver using the 'unbind' sysfs attribute
in a system with KASAN enabled, the following error message is seen
on a regular basis.
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
 
 static int alloc_all_mem(struct r8152 *tp)
@@ -1423,10 +1420,6 @@ static int alloc_all_mem(struct r8152 *tp)
 	if (!tp->intr_urb)
 		goto err1;
 
-	tp->intr_buff = kmalloc(INTBUFSIZE, GFP_KERNEL);
-	if (!tp->intr_buff)
-		goto err1;
-
 	tp->intr_interval = (int)ep_intr->desc.bInterval;
 	usb_fill_int_urb(tp->intr_urb, tp->udev, usb_rcvintpipe(tp->udev, 3),
 			 tp->intr_buff, INTBUFSIZE, intr_callback,
This might lead to intr_buff being backed by vzalloc() instead of
kzalloc() (check alloc_netdev_mqs())

It looks like it could cause a bug.



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