From b5447ff92b5169eab843a76d83e98d0cd7b7f5b6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2012 13:43:29 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] ath9k: fix a memory leak in ath_rx_tasklet()
commit 0d95521ea7 (ath9k: use split rx buffers to get rid of order-1 skb
allocations) added in memory leak in error path.
sc->rx.frag should be cleared after the pskb_expand_head() call, or else
we jump to requeue_drop_frag and leak an skb.
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: Jouni Malinen <jouni@qca.qualcomm.com>
Cc: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Cc: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Cc: Trond Wuellner <trond@chromium.org>
Cc: Grant Grundler <grundler@chromium.org>
Cc: Paul Stewart <pstew@chromium.org>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
---
drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/recv.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/recv.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/recv.c
index f4ae3ba994a8..1c4583c7ff7c 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/recv.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/recv.c
@@ -1913,13 +1913,13 @@ int ath_rx_tasklet(struct ath_softc *sc, int flush, bool hp)
if (sc->rx.frag) {
int space = skb->len - skb_tailroom(hdr_skb);
- sc->rx.frag = NULL;
-
if (pskb_expand_head(hdr_skb, 0, space, GFP_ATOMIC) < 0) {
dev_kfree_skb(skb);
goto requeue_drop_frag;
}
+ sc->rx.frag = NULL;
+
skb_copy_from_linear_data(skb, skb_put(hdr_skb, skb->len),
skb->len);
dev_kfree_skb_any(skb);
--
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