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Date:	Sun, 4 Aug 2013 08:19:40 +0800
From:	Ming Lei <ming.lei@...onical.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	oneukum@...e.de, gregkh@...uxfoundation.org,
	sarah.a.sharp@...ux.intel.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-usb@...r.kernel.org, eric.dumazet@...il.com,
	bhutchings@...arflare.com, grundler@...gle.com, freddy@...x.com.tw,
	stern@...land.harvard.edu
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 3/4] USBNET: support DMA SG

On Sun, Aug 4, 2013 at 3:07 AM, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> wrote:
> From: Oliver Neukum <oneukum@...e.de>
> Date: Sat, 03 Aug 2013 07:56:53 +0200
>
>> On Sat, 2013-08-03 at 10:46 +0800, Ming Lei wrote:
>>
>>> @@ -1268,10 +1298,14 @@ netdev_tx_t usbnet_start_xmit (struct sk_buff *skb,
>>>      entry = (struct skb_data *) skb->cb;
>>>      entry->urb = urb;
>>>      entry->dev = dev;
>>> -    entry->length = length;
>>>
>>>      usb_fill_bulk_urb (urb, dev->udev, dev->out,
>>>                      skb->data, skb->len, tx_complete, skb);
>>> +    if (dev->can_dma_sg) {
>>> +            if (build_dma_sg(skb, urb) < 0)
>>> +                    goto drop;
>>
>> Where do you free urb->sg?
>
> Indeed, this appears to leak.
>
> The devio.c code in the USB layer takes care to manage freeing of
> the urb->sg, so this usbnet code will have to as well.

Hamm, kfree(urb->sg) is removed carelessly in v1, sorry for that.

Will fix it in -v2.

Thanks,
--
Ming Lei
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