| From | Greg Kroah-Hartman <> | Subject | [ 044/102] mwifiex: fix memory leak issue when driver unload | Date | Fri, 17 May 2013 14:35:59 -0700 |
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3.9-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Amitkumar Karwar <akarwar@marvell.com>
commit f16fdc9d2dc1e5b270e9a08377587e831e0d36ac upstream.
After unregister_netdevice() call the request is queued and reg_state is changed to NETREG_UNREGISTERING. As we check for NETREG_UNREGISTERED state, free_netdev() never gets executed causing memory leak.
Initialize "dev->destructor" to free_netdev() to free device data after unregistration.
Reported-by: Daniel Drake <dsd@laptop.org> Tested-by: Daniel Drake <dsd@laptop.org> Signed-off-by: Amitkumar Karwar <akarwar@marvell.com> Signed-off-by: Bing Zhao <bzhao@marvell.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
--- drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/cfg80211.c | 3 --- drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/main.c | 1 + 2 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/cfg80211.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/cfg80211.c @@ -2280,9 +2280,6 @@ int mwifiex_del_virtual_intf(struct wiph if (wdev->netdev->reg_state == NETREG_REGISTERED) unregister_netdevice(wdev->netdev); - if (wdev->netdev->reg_state == NETREG_UNREGISTERED) - free_netdev(wdev->netdev); - /* Clear the priv in adapter */ priv->netdev = NULL; --- a/drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/main.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/main.c @@ -646,6 +646,7 @@ void mwifiex_init_priv_params(struct mwi struct net_device *dev) { dev->netdev_ops = &mwifiex_netdev_ops; + dev->destructor = free_netdev; /* Initialize private structure */ priv->current_key_index = 0; priv->media_connected = false;
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