[PATCH 6.12 313/567] net: usb: rtl8150: fix memory leak on usb_submit_urb() failure

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-01-06T17:33:53Z

From: Deepakkumar Karn <dkarn@redhat.com>

[ Upstream commit 12cab1191d9890097171156d06bfa8d31f1e39c8 ]

In async_set_registers(), when usb_submit_urb() fails, the allocated
async_req structure and URB are not freed, causing a memory leak.

The completion callback async_set_reg_cb() is responsible for freeing
these allocations, but it is only called after the URB is successfully
submitted and completes (successfully or with error). If submission
fails, the callback never runs and the memory is leaked.

Fix this by freeing both the URB and the request structure in the error
path when usb_submit_urb() fails.

Reported-by: syzbot+8dd915c7cb0490fc8c52@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=8dd915c7cb0490fc8c52
Fixes: 4d12997a9bb3 ("drivers: net: usb: rtl8150: concurrent URB bugfix")
Signed-off-by: Deepakkumar Karn <dkarn@redhat.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251216151304.59865-2-dkarn@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
drivers/net/usb/rtl8150.c | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/net/usb/rtl8150.c b/drivers/net/usb/rtl8150.c
index 278e6cb6f4d9..e40b0669d9f4 100644
--- a/drivers/net/usb/rtl8150.c
+++ b/drivers/net/usb/rtl8150.c
@@ -211,6 +211,8 @@ static int async_set_registers(rtl8150_t *dev, u16 indx, u16 size, u16 reg)
if (res == -ENODEV)
netif_device_detach(dev->netdev);
dev_err(&dev->udev->dev, "%s failed with %d\n", __func__, res);
+ kfree(req);
+ usb_free_urb(async_urb);
}
return res;
}
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2.51.0