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From: Sujith Manoharan <sujith@msujith.org>
To: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Cc: John Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ath9k_htc: Fix memory leak
Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2013 22:23:40 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20717.41108.36571.933800@gargle.gargle.HOWL> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <50ED9E7B.8050702@lwfinger.net>

Larry Finger wrote:
> Yes, your fix handles the normal case, and you can add a
> Tested-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>

Thanks.

> I still have one remaining question. It is possible for the timeout code in 
> htc_config_pipe_credits() to be executed, as shown below:
> 
>          time_left = wait_for_completion_timeout(&target->cmd_wait, HZ);
>          if (!time_left) {
>                  dev_err(target->dev, "HTC credit config timeout\n");
>                  return -ETIMEDOUT;
>          }
> 
> When this timeout happens, is the skb leaked?

No, the submitted SKB (via htc_issue_send()) will always have a TX completion
invocation. The actual completion of target->cmd_wait happens via a different
code-path, htc_process_conn_rsp() in ath9k_htc_rx_msg().

Sujith

      reply	other threads:[~2013-01-09 16:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-01-09 10:37 [PATCH] ath9k_htc: Fix memory leak Sujith Manoharan
2013-01-09 16:44 ` Larry Finger
2013-01-09 16:53   ` Sujith Manoharan [this message]

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