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Message-Id: <1454030348-17736-19-git-send-email-kamal@canonical.com>
Date:	Thu, 28 Jan 2016 17:15:56 -0800
From:	Kamal Mostafa <kamal@...onical.com>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org,
	kernel-team@...ts.ubuntu.com
Cc:	Peter Wu <peter@...ensteyn.nl>, Kalle Valo <kvalo@...eaurora.org>,
	Kamal Mostafa <kamal@...onical.com>
Subject: [PATCH 3.19.y-ckt 018/210] rtlwifi: fix memory leak for USB device

3.19.8-ckt14 -stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

---8<------------------------------------------------------------

From: Peter Wu <peter@...ensteyn.nl>

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 <peter@...ensteyn.nl>
ACKed-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@...inger.net>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@...eaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal@...onical.com>
---
 drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/usb.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/usb.c b/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/usb.c
index 27cd6ca..0eb3289 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/usb.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/usb.c
@@ -531,6 +531,8 @@ static void _rtl_usb_rx_process_noagg(struct ieee80211_hw *hw,
 			ieee80211_rx(hw, skb);
 		else
 			dev_kfree_skb_any(skb);
+	} else {
+		dev_kfree_skb_any(skb);
 	}
 }
 
-- 
1.9.1

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