Re: [PATCH] usb: cdc_acm: Do not leak URB buffers
From: Oliver Neukum
Date: Fri Sep 21 2018 - 09:27:28 EST
On Do, 2018-09-20 at 16:49 +0200, Romain Izard wrote:
> When the ACM TTY port is disconnected, the URBs it uses must be killed, and
> then the buffers must be freed. Unfortunately a previous refactor removed
> the code freeing the buffers because it looked extremely similar to the
> code killing the URBs.
>
> As a result, there were many new leaks for each plug/unplug cycle of a
> CDC-ACM device, that were detected by kmemleak.
>
> Restore the missing code, and the memory leak is removed.
Try as i may, I don't see the difference. Could you put a comment
exactly describing the issue into the code itself, lest this problem
reappear?
Regards
Oliver