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asix: Fix small memory leak in ax88772_unbind()

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When Ethernet frames span mulitple URBs, the netdev buffer memory
pointed to by the asix_rx_fixup_info structure remains allocated
during the time gap between the 2 executions of asix_rx_fixup_internal().

This means that if ax88772_unbind() is called within this time
gap to free the memory of the parent private data structure then
a memory leak of the part filled netdev buffer memory will occur.

Therefore, create a new function asix_rx_fixup_common_free() to
free the memory of the netdev buffer and add a call to
asix_rx_fixup_common_free() from inside ax88772_unbind().

Consequently when an unbind occurs part way through receiving
an Ethernet frame, the netdev buffer memory that is holding part
of the received Ethernet frame will now be freed.

Signed-off-by: Dean Jenkins <Dean_Jenkins@mentor.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Dean Jenkins
2017-08-07 09:50:16 +01:00
committed by David S. Miller
parent 960eb4eeaa
commit d0c8f338ab
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drivers/net/usb/asix.h
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@@ -209,6 +209,7 @@ void asix_write_cmd_async(struct usbnet *dev, u8 cmd, u16 value,
int asix_rx_fixup_internal(struct usbnet *dev, struct sk_buff *skb,
struct asix_rx_fixup_info *rx);
int asix_rx_fixup_common(struct usbnet *dev, struct sk_buff *skb);
void asix_rx_fixup_common_free(struct asix_common_private *dp);
struct sk_buff *asix_tx_fixup(struct usbnet *dev, struct sk_buff *skb,
gfp_t flags);