[PATCH 2/2] ath10k: plug memory leak on beacon tx

Michal Kazior michal.kazior at tieto.com
Mon Oct 28 02:18:14 EDT 2013


If beacon tx command failed the wmi command buffer
was not freed. This led to OOM in the long run.
This became aparent when stress testing
multi-BSSID.

Reported-By: Tomasz Skapski <tomasz.skapski at tieto.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Kazior <michal.kazior at tieto.com>
---
 drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/wmi.c | 7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/wmi.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/wmi.c
index 8db9db2..f79f17c 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/wmi.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/wmi.c
@@ -3092,6 +3092,7 @@ int ath10k_wmi_beacon_send_nowait(struct ath10k *ar,
 {
 	struct wmi_bcn_tx_cmd *cmd;
 	struct sk_buff *skb;
+	int ret;
 
 	skb = ath10k_wmi_alloc_skb(sizeof(*cmd) + arg->bcn_len);
 	if (!skb)
@@ -3104,7 +3105,11 @@ int ath10k_wmi_beacon_send_nowait(struct ath10k *ar,
 	cmd->hdr.bcn_len  = __cpu_to_le32(arg->bcn_len);
 	memcpy(cmd->bcn, arg->bcn, arg->bcn_len);
 
-	return ath10k_wmi_cmd_send_nowait(ar, skb, ar->wmi.cmd->bcn_tx_cmdid);
+	ret = ath10k_wmi_cmd_send_nowait(ar, skb, ar->wmi.cmd->bcn_tx_cmdid);
+	if (ret)
+		dev_kfree_skb(skb);
+
+	return ret;
 }
 
 static void ath10k_wmi_pdev_set_wmm_param(struct wmi_wmm_params *params,
-- 
1.8.4.rc3




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