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SubjectRe: [PATCH] net: usb: Fix memory leak on Tx data path
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On Thursday 25 October 2012 21:17:54 Hemant Kumar wrote:
> Driver anchors the tx urbs and defers the urb submission if
> a transmit request comes when the interface is suspended.
> Anchoring urb increments the urb reference count. These
> deferred urbs are later accessed by calling usb_get_from_anchor()
> for submission during interface resume. usb_get_from_anchor()
> unanchors the urb but urb reference count remains same.
> This causes the urb reference count to remain non-zero
> after usb_free_urb() gets called and urb never gets freed.
> Hence call usb_put_urb() after anchoring the urb to properly
> balance the reference count for these deferred urbs. Also,
> unanchor these deferred urbs during disconnect, to free them
> up.

Good catch. This needs to go into stable, too.
>
> Signed-off-by: Hemant Kumar <hemantk@codeaurora.org>
Acked-by: Oliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.de>

Regards
Oliver



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