Thread (3 messages) 3 messages, 3 authors, 2022-10-11

Re: [PATCH] ath9k: hif_usb: fix memory leak of urbs in ath9k_hif_usb_dealloc_tx_urbs()

From: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@toke.dk>
Date: 2022-10-07 18:22:24
Also in: linux-wireless, lkml

Fedor Pchelkin [off-list ref] writes:
Syzkaller reports a long-known leak of urbs in
ath9k_hif_usb_dealloc_tx_urbs().

The cause of the leak is that usb_get_urb() is called but usb_free_urb()
(or usb_put_urb()) is not called inside usb_kill_urb() as urb->dev or
urb->ep fields have not been initialized and usb_kill_urb() returns
immediately.

The patch removes trying to kill urbs located in hif_dev->tx.tx_buf
because hif_dev->tx.tx_buf is not supposed to contain urbs which are in
pending state (the pending urbs are stored in hif_dev->tx.tx_pending).
The tx.tx_lock is acquired so there should not be any changes in the list.

Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with Syzkaller.

Fixes: 03fb92a432ea ("ath9k: hif_usb: fix race condition between usb_get_urb() and usb_kill_anchored_urbs()")
Signed-off-by: Fedor Pchelkin <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Alexey Khoroshilov <redacted>
Acked-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@toke.dk>
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