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net: usb: Fix memory leak on Tx data path
authorHemant Kumar <hemantk@codeaurora.org>
Thu, 25 Oct 2012 18:17:54 +0000 (18:17 +0000)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Sat, 17 Nov 2012 21:14:24 +0000 (13:14 -0800)
commit690bfe52ce0784e7a24ae8a37929580b6bd65bc9
treeae2e23d3d9f4d3aa50392d7571ef31dea7f7256c
parentdb138ef294594d3721dae6409d9e13d6ebf3df39
net: usb: Fix memory leak on Tx data path

[ Upstream commit 39707c2a3ba5011038b363f84d37c8a98d2d9db1 ]

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.

Signed-off-by: Hemant Kumar <hemantk@codeaurora.org>
Acked-by: Oliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/net/usb/usbnet.c