linux-kernel - [RFC PATCH 3/3] usbnet: Fix memory leak when rx

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Date:   Tue, 19 Sep 2017 09:15:22 -0700
From:   Douglas Anderson <dianders@...omium.org>
To:     Oliver Neukum <oneukum@...e.com>
Cc:     groeck@...omium.org, grundler@...omium.org,
        Douglas Anderson <dianders@...omium.org>,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-usb@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [RFC PATCH 3/3] usbnet: Fix memory leak when rx_submit() fails

If rx_submit() returns an error code then nobody calls usb_free_urb().
That means it's leaked.

NOTE: This problem was found solely by code inspection and not due to
any failing test cases.

Signed-off-by: Douglas Anderson <dianders@...omium.org>
---

 drivers/net/usb/usbnet.c | 9 ++++++---
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/usb/usbnet.c b/drivers/net/usb/usbnet.c
index e72547d8d0e6..4c067aaeea5a 100644
--- a/drivers/net/usb/usbnet.c
+++ b/drivers/net/usb/usbnet.c
@@ -1182,9 +1182,12 @@ usbnet_deferred_kevent (struct work_struct *work)
 					usb_free_urb(urb);
 					goto fail_lowmem;
 				}
-				if (rx_submit (dev, urb, GFP_KERNEL) ==
-				    -ENOLINK)
-					resched = 0;
+				status = rx_submit (dev, urb, GFP_KERNEL);
+				if (status) {
+					usb_free_urb(urb);
+					if (status == -ENOLINK)
+						resched = 0;
+				}
 				usb_autopm_put_interface(dev->intf);
 fail_lowmem:
 				if (resched)
-- 
2.14.1.690.gbb1197296e-goog