From: Kalle Valo <kvalo@kernel.org>
To: Takeshi Misawa <jeantsuru.cumc.mandola@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org,
"John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] wifi: ath9k: Fix memory leak in htc_connect_service
Date: Sat, 06 May 2023 08:53:11 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87o7myngzc.fsf@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ZFXk/AIKeapT72Pj@DESKTOP> (Takeshi Misawa's message of "Sat, 6 May 2023 14:26:20 +0900")
Takeshi Misawa <jeantsuru.cumc.mandola@gmail.com> writes:
> Timeout occurs in htc_connect_service(), then this function returns
> without freeing skb.
>
> Fix this by going to err path.
>
> syzbot report:
> BUG: memory leak
> unreferenced object 0xffff88810a980800 (size 240):
> comm "kworker/1:1", pid 24, jiffies 4294947427 (age 16.220s)
> hex dump (first 32 bytes):
> 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 00 ................
> backtrace:
> [<ffffffff83b971c6>] __alloc_skb+0x206/0x270 net/core/skbuff.c:552
> [<ffffffff82eb3731>] alloc_skb include/linux/skbuff.h:1270 [inline]
> [<ffffffff82eb3731>] htc_connect_service+0x121/0x230 drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/htc_hst.c:259
> [<ffffffff82ec03a5>] ath9k_htc_connect_svc drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/htc_drv_init.c:137 [inline]
> [<ffffffff82ec03a5>] ath9k_init_htc_services.constprop.0+0xe5/0x390 drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/htc_drv_init.c:157
> [<ffffffff82ec0747>] ath9k_htc_probe_device+0xf7/0x8a0 drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/htc_drv_init.c:959
> [<ffffffff82eb3ef5>] ath9k_htc_hw_init+0x35/0x60 drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/htc_hst.c:521
> [<ffffffff82eb68dd>] ath9k_hif_usb_firmware_cb+0xcd/0x1f0 drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/hif_usb.c:1243
> [<ffffffff82aa835b>] request_firmware_work_func+0x4b/0x90 drivers/base/firmware_loader/main.c:1107
> [<ffffffff8129a35a>] process_one_work+0x2ba/0x5f0 kernel/workqueue.c:2289
> [<ffffffff8129ac7d>] worker_thread+0x5d/0x5b0 kernel/workqueue.c:2436
> [<ffffffff812a4fa9>] kthread+0x129/0x170 kernel/kthread.c:376
> [<ffffffff81002dcf>] ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:308
>
> Fixes: fb9987d0f748 ("ath9k_htc: Support for AR9271 chipset.")
> Link: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?id=fbf138952d6c1115ba7d797cf7d56f6935184e3f
> Reported-and-tested-by: syzbot+b68fbebe56d8362907e8@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
> Signed-off-by: Takeshi Misawa <jeantsuru.cumc.mandola@gmail.com>
Then submitting a new version of the patch you should mark it as v2 and
include a changelog what changed from v1, more info in the wiki link
below. But no need to resubmit the patch because of this, just keep this
in mind for future patches.
--
https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-wireless/list/
https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/developers/documentation/submittingpatches
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-05-06 5:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-05-06 5:26 [PATCH] wifi: ath9k: Fix memory leak in htc_connect_service Takeshi Misawa
2023-05-06 5:53 ` Kalle Valo [this message]
2023-05-13 21:12 ` Fedor Pchelkin
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