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From: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
To: Mike Looijmans <mike.looijmans@topic.nl>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, khoroshilov@ispras.ru,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Mike Looijmans <mike.looijmans@topic.nl>,
	stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [v2] rsi: Fix failure to load firmware after memory leak fix and fixthe leak
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2015 06:23:12 +0000 (UTC)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150731062312.CF880140A4E@smtp.codeaurora.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1438062661-3173-1-git-send-email-mike.looijmans@topic.nl>


> 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

      reply	other threads:[~2015-07-31  6:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-07-27  5:43 [PATCH] rsi: Fix failure to load firmware after memory leak fix and fix the leak Mike Looijmans
2015-07-27  7:55 ` Alexey Khoroshilov
2015-07-27 10:28 ` Kalle Valo
2015-07-28  5:53   ` Mike Looijmans
2015-07-28  5:51 ` [PATCH v2] " Mike Looijmans
2015-07-31  6:23   ` Kalle Valo [this message]

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