Re: [PATCH] can: usb: fix a possible memory leak in esd_usb2_start_xmit

From: Hangyu Hua
Date: Mon Feb 28 2022 - 03:06:21 EST


Yes. I will create a patch later.

Thanks.

On 2022/2/28 15:51, Marc Kleine-Budde wrote:
On 28.02.2022 10:05:03, Hangyu Hua wrote:
I get it. But this means ems_usb_start_xmit have a redundant
dev_kfree_skb beacause can_put_echo_skb delete original skb and
can_free_echo_skb delete the cloned skb. While this code is harmless
do you think we need to delete it ?

ACK. This dev_kfree_skb() should be deleted:

| err = usb_submit_urb(urb, GFP_ATOMIC);
| if (unlikely(err)) {
| can_free_echo_skb(netdev, context->echo_index, NULL);
|
| usb_unanchor_urb(urb);
| usb_free_coherent(dev->udev, size, buf, urb->transfer_dma);
| dev_kfree_skb(skb);

Can you create a patch?

regards,
Marc