Messages in this thread Patch in this message | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | From | Kamal Mostafa <> | Subject | [PATCH 25/78] mwifiex: fix memory leak issue when driver unload | Date | Tue, 28 May 2013 14:19:34 -0700 |
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3.8.13.1 -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: Kamal Mostafa <kamal@canonical.com> --- drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/cfg80211.c | 3 --- drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/main.c | 1 + 2 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/cfg80211.c b/drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/cfg80211.c index 3eca710..10cb3f1 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/cfg80211.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/cfg80211.c @@ -2155,9 +2155,6 @@ int mwifiex_del_virtual_intf(struct wiphy *wiphy, struct wireless_dev *wdev) 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; diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/main.c b/drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/main.c index 9c802ed..6d9bc63 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/main.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex/main.c @@ -646,6 +646,7 @@ void mwifiex_init_priv_params(struct mwifiex_private *priv, 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; -- 1.8.1.2
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