asix: Fix small memory leak in ax88772_unbind()

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
3 changed files with 17 additions and 0 deletions

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@@ -764,6 +764,7 @@ static int ax88772_bind(struct usbnet *dev, struct usb_interface *intf)
static void ax88772_unbind(struct usbnet *dev, struct usb_interface *intf)
{
asix_rx_fixup_common_free(dev->driver_priv);
kfree(dev->driver_priv);
}