Re: [PATCH 1/1] wlcore: Fix memory leak in case wl12xx_fetch_firmware failure
From: Kalle Valo
Date: Thu Jan 10 2019 - 06:32:13 EST
Zumeng Chen <zumeng.chen@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Release fw_status, raw_fw_status, and tx_res_if when wl12xx_fetch_firmware
> failed instead of meaningless goto out to avoid the following memory leak
> reports(Only the last one listed):
>
> unreferenced object 0xc28a9a00 (size 512):
> comm "kworker/0:4", pid 31298, jiffies 2783204 (age 203.290s)
> hex dump (first 32 bytes):
> 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
> 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
> backtrace:
> [<6624adab>] kmemleak_alloc+0x40/0x74
> [<500ddb31>] kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0x1ac/0x270
> [<db4d731d>] wl12xx_chip_wakeup+0xc4/0x1fc [wlcore]
> [<76c5db53>] wl1271_op_add_interface+0x4a4/0x8f4 [wlcore]
> [<cbf30777>] drv_add_interface+0xa4/0x1a0 [mac80211]
> [<65bac325>] ieee80211_reconfig+0x9c0/0x1644 [mac80211]
> [<2817c80e>] ieee80211_restart_work+0x90/0xc8 [mac80211]
> [<7e1d425a>] process_one_work+0x284/0x42c
> [<55f9432e>] worker_thread+0x2fc/0x48c
> [<abb582c6>] kthread+0x148/0x160
> [<63144b13>] ret_from_fork+0x14/0x2c
> [< (null)>] (null)
> [<1f6e7715>] 0xffffffff
>
> Signed-off-by: Zumeng Chen <zumeng.chen@xxxxxxxxx>
Patch applied to wireless-drivers-next.git, thanks.
ba2ffc96321c wlcore: Fix memory leak in case wl12xx_fetch_firmware failure
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https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10736825/
https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/developers/documentation/submittingpatches