Re: [v2] rsi: Fix failure to load firmware after memory leak fix and fixthe leak

[Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>]

> Fixes commit eae79b4f3e82 ("rsi: fix memory leak in rsi_load_ta_instructions()")
> which stopped the driver from functioning.
> 
> Firmware data has been allocated using vmalloc(), resulting in memory
> that cannot be used for DMA. Hence the firmware was first copied to a
> buffer allocated with kmalloc() in the original code. This patch reverts
> the commit and only calls "kfree()" to release the buffer after sending
> the data. This fixes the memory leak without breaking the driver.
> 
> Add a comment to the kmemdup() calls to explain why this is done, and abort
> if memory allocation fails.
> 
> Tested on a Topic Miami-Florida board which contains the rsi SDIO chip.
> 
> Also added the same kfree() call to the USB glue driver. This was not
> tested on actual hardware though, as I only have the SDIO version.
> 
> Fixes: eae79b4f3e82 ("rsi: fix memory leak in rsi_load_ta_instructions()")
> Signed-off-by: Mike Looijmans <mike.looijmans@topic.nl>
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org

Thanks, applied to wireless-drivers.git.

Kalle Valo