Re: [RFT PATCH v2] xhci: Fix memory leak when caching protocol extended capability PSI tables

From: Greg KH
Date: Tue Feb 11 2020 - 11:13:20 EST


On Tue, Feb 11, 2020 at 04:12:40PM +0100, Marek Szyprowski wrote:
> Hi Mathias,
>
> On 11.02.2020 16:01, Mathias Nyman wrote:
> > xhci driver assumed that xHC controllers have at most one custom
> > supported speed table (PSI) for all usb 3.x ports.
> > Memory was allocated for one PSI table under the xhci hub structure.
> >
> > Turns out this is not the case, some controllers have a separate
> > "supported protocol capability" entry with a PSI table for each port.
> > This means each usb3 roothub port can in theory support different custom
> > speeds.
> >
> > To solve this, cache all supported protocol capabilities with their PSI
> > tables in an array, and add pointers to the xhci port structure so that
> > every port points to its capability entry in the array.
> >
> > When creating the SuperSpeedPlus USB Device Capability BOS descriptor
> > for the xhci USB 3.1 roothub we for now will use only data from the
> > first USB 3.1 capable protocol capability entry in the array.
> > This could be improved later, this patch focuses resolving
> > the memory leak.
> >
> > Reported-by: Paul Menzel <pmenzel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Reported-by: Sajja Venkateswara Rao <VenkateswaraRao.Sajja@xxxxxxx>
> > Fixes: 47189098f8be ("xhci: parse xhci protocol speed ID list for usb 3.1 usage")
> > Cc: stable <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> # v4.4+
> > Signed-off-by: Mathias Nyman <mathias.nyman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Tested-by: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@xxxxxxxxxxx>

Nice!

Should I revert the first and then apply this?

thanks,

greg k-h