[PATCH 4/4] ath10k: plug possible memory leak in WMI

Michal Kazior michal.kazior at tieto.com
Thu Aug 8 04:16:53 EDT 2013


There was a possible memory leak when WMI command
queue reached it's limit. Command buffers were not
freed.

Signed-off-by: Michal Kazior <michal.kazior at tieto.com>
---
 drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/wmi.c |    1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/wmi.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/wmi.c
index 55f90c7..775fedf 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/wmi.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/wmi.c
@@ -110,6 +110,7 @@ static int ath10k_wmi_cmd_send(struct ath10k *ar, struct sk_buff *skb,
 	if (atomic_add_return(1, &ar->wmi.pending_tx_count) >
 	    WMI_MAX_PENDING_TX_COUNT) {
 		/* avoid using up memory when FW hangs */
+		dev_kfree_skb(skb);
 		atomic_dec(&ar->wmi.pending_tx_count);
 		return -EBUSY;
 	}
-- 
1.7.9.5




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