linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH net] mwifiex: Fix possible memleak in probe and disconnect

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Date:   Mon, 18 Oct 2021 12:44:45 +0000 (UTC)
From:   Kalle Valo <kvalo@...eaurora.org>
To:     Wang Hai <wanghai38@...wei.com>
Cc:     <davem@...emloft.net>, <kuba@...nel.org>, <shenyang39@...wei.com>,
        <marcelo@...ck.org>, <linville@...driver.com>,
        <luisca@...ybit.com>, <libertas-dev@...ts.infradead.org>,
        <linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org>, <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] mwifiex: Fix possible memleak in probe and disconnect

Wang Hai <wanghai38@...wei.com> wrote:

> I got memory leak as follows when doing fault injection test:
> 
> unreferenced object 0xffff888031c2f000 (size 512):
>   comm "kworker/0:2", pid 165, jiffies 4294922253 (age 391.180s)
>   hex dump (first 32 bytes):
>     00 20 f7 08 80 88 ff ff 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  . ..............
>     00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
>   backtrace:
>     [<00000000537bdb86>] kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0x16d/0x360
>     [<0000000047666fab>] if_usb_probe+0x90/0x96e [usb8xxx]
>     [<00000000de44b4f0>] usb_probe_interface+0x31b/0x800 [usbcore]
>     [<000000009b1a1951>] really_probe+0x299/0xc30
>     [<0000000055b8ffce>] __driver_probe_device+0x357/0x500
>     [<00000000bb0c7161>] driver_probe_device+0x4e/0x140
>     [<00000000866d1730>] __device_attach_driver+0x257/0x340
>     [<0000000084e79b96>] bus_for_each_drv+0x166/0x1e0
>     [<000000009bad60ea>] __device_attach+0x272/0x420
>     [<00000000236b97c1>] bus_probe_device+0x1eb/0x2a0
>     [<000000008d77d7cf>] device_add+0xbf0/0x1cd0
>     [<000000004af6a3f0>] usb_set_configuration+0x10fb/0x18d0 [usbcore]
>     [<000000002ebdfdcd>] usb_generic_driver_probe+0xa2/0xe0 [usbcore]
>     [<00000000444f344d>] usb_probe_device+0xe4/0x2b0 [usbcore]
>     [<000000009b1a1951>] really_probe+0x299/0xc30
>     [<0000000055b8ffce>] __driver_probe_device+0x357/0x500
> 
> cardp is missing being freed in the error handling path of the probe
> and the path of the disconnect, which will cause kmemleak.
> 
> This patch adds the missing free().
> 
> Fixes: 876c9d3aeb98 ("[PATCH] Marvell Libertas 8388 802.11b/g USB driver")
> Fixes: c305a19a0d0a ("libertas_tf: usb specific functions")
> Reported-by: Hulk Robot <hulkci@...wei.com>
> Signed-off-by: Wang Hai <wanghai38@...wei.com>

mwifiex patches are applied to wireless-drivers, not to the net tree. Please be
careful how you mark your patches.

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https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-wireless/patch/20211018063818.1895774-1-wanghai38@huawei.com/

https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/developers/documentation/submittingpatches