Re: wifi: rtw88: usb: kill and free rx urbs on probe failure

From: Kalle Valo
Date: Fri Aug 25 2023 - 06:03:18 EST


Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> After rtw_usb_alloc_rx_bufs() has been called rx urbs have been
> allocated and must be freed in the error path. After rtw_usb_init_rx()
> has been called they are submitted, so they also must be killed.
>
> Add these forgotten steps to the probe error path.
>
> Besides the lost memory this also fixes a problem when the driver
> fails to download the firmware in rtw_chip_info_setup(). In this
> case it can happen that the completion of the rx urbs handler runs
> at a time when we already freed our data structures resulting in
> a kernel crash.
>
> Fixes: a82dfd33d123 ("wifi: rtw88: Add common USB chip support")
> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Reported-by: Ilgaz Öcal <ilgaz@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Ping-Ke Shih <pkshih@xxxxxxxxxxx>

Patch applied to wireless-next.git, thanks.

290564367ab7 wifi: rtw88: usb: kill and free rx urbs on probe failure

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