[048/136] kaweth: Fix memory leak in kaweth_control()

From: Greg KH
Date: Thu Oct 01 2009 - 21:33:27 EST


2.6.31-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know.

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From: Kevin Cernekee <cernekee@xxxxxxxxx>

commit 051b982bcc620695de629d29c333c95b66e9b95e upstream.

kaweth_control() never frees the buffer that it allocates for the USB
control message. Test case:

while :; do ifconfig eth2 down ; ifconfig eth2 up ; done

This is a tiny buffer so it is a slow leak. If you want to speed up the
process, you can change the allocation size to e.g. 16384 bytes, and it
will consume several megabytes within a few minutes.

Signed-off-by: Kevin Cernekee <cernekee@xxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Oliver Neukum <oliver@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxx>

---
drivers/net/usb/kaweth.c | 18 +++++++++++-------
1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/net/usb/kaweth.c
+++ b/drivers/net/usb/kaweth.c
@@ -263,6 +263,7 @@ static int kaweth_control(struct kaweth_
int timeout)
{
struct usb_ctrlrequest *dr;
+ int retval;

dbg("kaweth_control()");

@@ -278,18 +279,21 @@ static int kaweth_control(struct kaweth_
return -ENOMEM;
}

- dr->bRequestType= requesttype;
+ dr->bRequestType = requesttype;
dr->bRequest = request;
dr->wValue = cpu_to_le16(value);
dr->wIndex = cpu_to_le16(index);
dr->wLength = cpu_to_le16(size);

- return kaweth_internal_control_msg(kaweth->dev,
- pipe,
- dr,
- data,
- size,
- timeout);
+ retval = kaweth_internal_control_msg(kaweth->dev,
+ pipe,
+ dr,
+ data,
+ size,
+ timeout);
+
+ kfree(dr);
+ return retval;
}

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