[PATCH] orinoco_usb: fix memory leak in ezusb_access_ltv() when device disconnected

[PATCH] orinoco_usb: fix memory leak in ezusb_access_ltv() when device disconnected

[Alexey Khoroshilov]

If "device is disconnected" check occurs to be true in ezusb_access_ltv(),
it just return -ENODEV. But that means request_context is leaked since
there are no any references to it anymore.
The patch adds a call to ezusb_request_context_put() before return.

Found by Linux Driver Verification project (linuxtesting.org).

Signed-off-by: Alexey Khoroshilov <khoroshilov@ispras.ru>
---
 drivers/net/wireless/orinoco/orinoco_usb.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/orinoco/orinoco_usb.c b/drivers/net/wireless/orinoco/orinoco_usb.c
index 1f9cb55..bdfe637 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/orinoco/orinoco_usb.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/orinoco/orinoco_usb.c
@@ -881,7 +881,8 @@ static int ezusb_access_ltv(struct ezusb_priv *upriv,
 
 	if (!upriv->udev) {
 		dbg("Device disconnected");
-		return -ENODEV;
+		retval = -ENODEV;
+		goto exit;
 	}
 
 	if (upriv->read_urb->status != -EINPROGRESS)
-- 
1.8.1.2

Re: [PATCH] orinoco_usb: fix memory leak in ezusb_access_ltv() when device disconnected

[Dave Kilroy]

On 13/06/2013 21:26, Alexey Khoroshilov wrote:
> If "device is disconnected" check occurs to be true in ezusb_access_ltv(),
> it just return -ENODEV. But that means request_context is leaked since
> there are no any references to it anymore.
> The patch adds a call to ezusb_request_context_put() before return.
>
> Found by Linux Driver Verification project (linuxtesting.org).
>
> Signed-off-by: Alexey Khoroshilov <khoroshilov-ufN2psIa012HXe+LvDLADg@public.gmane.org>
> ---
>   drivers/net/wireless/orinoco/orinoco_usb.c | 3 ++-
>   1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/orinoco/orinoco_usb.c b/drivers/net/wireless/orinoco/orinoco_usb.c
> index 1f9cb55..bdfe637 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/wireless/orinoco/orinoco_usb.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/orinoco/orinoco_usb.c
> @@ -881,7 +881,8 @@ static int ezusb_access_ltv(struct ezusb_priv *upriv,
>   
>   	if (!upriv->udev) {
>   		dbg("Device disconnected");
> -		return -ENODEV;
> +		retval = -ENODEV;
> +		goto exit;
>   	}
>   
>   	if (upriv->read_urb->status != -EINPROGRESS)
It looks like there is also loss of a request_context in
ezusb_xmit after orinoco_process_xmit_skb fails. Something like
the following should resolve it.

The remaining request_context allocations look ok to me.


Dave.
---
Apologies, this is cut+paste from an old tree and mangled to be
diff-like. Untested. Uncompiled.

diff a/drivers/net/wireless/orinoco/orinoco_usb.c 
b/drivers/net/wireless/orinoco/orinoco_usb.c
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/orinoco/orinoco_usb.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/orinoco/orinoco_usb.c
@@ -1194,8 +1194,10 @@ static netdev_tx_t ezusb_xmit(struct sk_buff 
*skb, struct net_device *dev)

     err = orinoco_process_xmit_skb(skb, dev, priv, &tx_control,
                        &mic[0]);
-    if (err)
+    if (err) {
+        ezusb_request_context_put(ctx);
         goto drop;
+    }

     {
         __le16 *tx_cntl = (__le16 *)buf;

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