[PATCH 5.15 492/570] can: gs_usb: gs_usb_receive_bulk_callback(): fix URB memory leak

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-04-13T16:39:14Z

From: Marc Kleine-Budde <mkl@pengutronix.de>

[ Upstream commit 7352e1d5932a0e777e39fa4b619801191f57e603 ]

In gs_can_open(), the URBs for USB-in transfers are allocated, added to the
parent->rx_submitted anchor and submitted. In the complete callback
gs_usb_receive_bulk_callback(), the URB is processed and resubmitted. In
gs_can_close() the URBs are freed by calling
usb_kill_anchored_urbs(parent->rx_submitted).

However, this does not take into account that the USB framework unanchors
the URB before the complete function is called. This means that once an
in-URB has been completed, it is no longer anchored and is ultimately not
released in gs_can_close().

Fix the memory leak by anchoring the URB in the
gs_usb_receive_bulk_callback() to the parent->rx_submitted anchor.

[ The variable usbcan was renamed to parent in
commit b6980ad3a90c ("can: gs_usb: uniformly use "parent" as variable name for struct gs_usb")
introduced in v6.6. To backport to v5.15, replace parent with usbcan. ]

Fixes: d08e973a77d1 ("can: gs_usb: Added support for the GS_USB CAN devices")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260105-gs_usb-fix-memory-leak-v2-1-cc6ed6438034@pengutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Marc Kleine-Budde <mkl@pengutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ruohan Lan <ruohanlan@aliyun.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
drivers/net/can/usb/gs_usb.c | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/net/can/usb/gs_usb.c b/drivers/net/can/usb/gs_usb.c
index ffa2a4d92d010..acffe11a0ae13 100644
--- a/drivers/net/can/usb/gs_usb.c
+++ b/drivers/net/can/usb/gs_usb.c
@@ -402,6 +402,8 @@ static void gs_usb_receive_bulk_callback(struct urb *urb)
usbcan
);

+ usb_anchor_urb(urb, &usbcan->rx_submitted);
+
rc = usb_submit_urb(urb, GFP_ATOMIC);

/* USB failure take down all interfaces */
--
2.53.0