From: Gustavo Padovan <padovan@profusion.mobi>
To: Cong Wang <amwang@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>,
linux-bluetooth@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Patch] btusb: fix a memory leak in btusb_send_frame()
Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2011 21:47:41 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111201124741.GC2894@joana> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1321925578-5407-1-git-send-email-amwang@redhat.com>
Hi Cong,
* Cong Wang <amwang@redhat.com> [2011-11-22 09:32:57 +0800]:
> This patch fixes the following memory leak reported by kmemleak:
>
> unreferenced object 0xffff880060a53840 (size 192):
> comm "softirq", pid 0, jiffies 4320571771 (age 1406.569s)
> hex dump (first 32 bytes):
> 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
> 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
> backtrace:
> [<ffffffff81138a1c>] create_object+0x187/0x28b
> [<ffffffff814be12e>] kmemleak_alloc+0x73/0x98
> [<ffffffff811289d3>] __kmalloc+0xfc/0x123
> [<ffffffff81386546>] usb_alloc_urb+0x1e/0x48
> [<ffffffffa0130274>] btusb_send_frame+0x86/0x385 [btusb]
> [<ffffffffa02d8230>] hci_send_frame+0xa0/0xa5 [bluetooth]
> [<ffffffffa02d8a4e>] hci_cmd_task+0xa0/0xfb [bluetooth]
> [<ffffffff81058548>] tasklet_action+0x8f/0xef
> [<ffffffff81058a4c>] __do_softirq+0xf4/0x1db
> [<ffffffff81058bb7>] run_ksoftirqd+0x84/0x129
> [<ffffffff8106f1c4>] kthread+0xa0/0xa8
> [<ffffffff814dd144>] kernel_thread_helper+0x4/0x10
> [<ffffffffffffffff>] 0xffffffffffffffff
>
> The problem is that when inc_tx() returns non-zero, we forgot
> to call usb_free_urb().
>
> Cc: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
> Cc: "Gustavo F. Padovan" <padovan@profusion.mobi>
> Signed-off-by: WANG Cong <amwang@redhat.com>
>
> ---
> diff --git a/drivers/bluetooth/btusb.c b/drivers/bluetooth/btusb.c
> index fe4ebc3..eabc437 100644
> --- a/drivers/bluetooth/btusb.c
> +++ b/drivers/bluetooth/btusb.c
> @@ -777,9 +777,8 @@ skip_waking:
> usb_mark_last_busy(data->udev);
> }
>
> - usb_free_urb(urb);
> -
> done:
> + usb_free_urb(urb);
> return err;
> }
Patch has been applied, thanks.
Gustavo
prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-12-01 12:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-11-22 1:32 [Patch] btusb: fix a memory leak in btusb_send_frame() Cong Wang
2011-11-22 7:38 ` Marcel Holtmann
2011-12-01 12:47 ` Gustavo Padovan [this message]
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