From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:57344 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932573AbcAZCq6 (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Jan 2016 21:46:58 -0500 Subject: Patch "rtlwifi: fix memory leak for USB device" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree To: peter@lekensteyn.nl, Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, kvalo@codeaurora.org Cc: , From: Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2016 18:46:57 -0800 Message-ID: <145377641779221@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ANSI_X3.4-1968 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: stable-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled rtlwifi: fix memory leak for USB device to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: rtlwifi-fix-memory-leak-for-usb-device.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let know about it. >>From 17bc55864f81dd730d05f09b1641312a7990d636 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Peter Wu Date: Mon, 7 Dec 2015 01:07:31 +0100 Subject: rtlwifi: fix memory leak for USB device From: Peter Wu commit 17bc55864f81dd730d05f09b1641312a7990d636 upstream. Free skb for received frames with a wrong checksum. This can happen pretty rapidly, exhausting all memory. This fixes a memleak (detected with kmemleak). Originally found while using monitor mode, but it also appears during managed mode (once the link is up). Signed-off-by: Peter Wu ACKed-by: Larry Finger Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/usb.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) --- a/drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/usb.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/usb.c @@ -531,6 +531,8 @@ static void _rtl_usb_rx_process_noagg(st ieee80211_rx(hw, skb); else dev_kfree_skb_any(skb); + } else { + dev_kfree_skb_any(skb); } } Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from peter@lekensteyn.nl are queue-4.4/rtlwifi-fix-memory-leak-for-usb-device.patch