kaweth: Fix memory leak in kaweth_control()
authorKevin Cernekee <cernekee@gmail.com>
Sat, 19 Sep 2009 11:18:21 +0000 (11:18 +0000)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Tue, 22 Sep 2009 21:00:07 +0000 (14:00 -0700)
kaweth_control() never frees the buffer that it allocates for the USB
control message.  Test case:

while :; do ifconfig eth2 down ; ifconfig eth2 up ; done

This is a tiny buffer so it is a slow leak.  If you want to speed up the
process, you can change the allocation size to e.g. 16384 bytes, and it
will consume several megabytes within a few minutes.

Signed-off-by: Kevin Cernekee <cernekee@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Oliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
drivers/net/usb/kaweth.c

index e2a39b9..e391ef9 100644 (file)
@@ -263,6 +263,7 @@ static int kaweth_control(struct kaweth_device *kaweth,
                          int timeout)
 {
        struct usb_ctrlrequest *dr;
+       int retval;
 
        dbg("kaweth_control()");
 
@@ -278,18 +279,21 @@ static int kaweth_control(struct kaweth_device *kaweth,
                return -ENOMEM;
        }
 
-       dr->bRequestType= requesttype;
+       dr->bRequestType = requesttype;
        dr->bRequest = request;
        dr->wValue = cpu_to_le16(value);
        dr->wIndex = cpu_to_le16(index);
        dr->wLength = cpu_to_le16(size);
 
-       return kaweth_internal_control_msg(kaweth->dev,
-                                       pipe,
-                                       dr,
-                                       data,
-                                       size,
-                                       timeout);
+       retval = kaweth_internal_control_msg(kaweth->dev,
+                                            pipe,
+                                            dr,
+                                            data,
+                                            size,
+                                            timeout);
+
+       kfree(dr);
+       return retval;
 }
 
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