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Wang Hai 960a216b07 libertas: Fix possible memory leak in probe and disconnect
[ Upstream commit 9692151e2f ]

I got memory leak as follows when doing fault injection test:

unreferenced object 0xffff88812c7d7400 (size 512):
  comm "kworker/6:1", pid 176, jiffies 4295003332 (age 822.830s)
  hex dump (first 32 bytes):
    00 68 1e 04 81 88 ff ff 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  .h..............
    00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
  backtrace:
    [<ffffffff8167939c>] slab_post_alloc_hook+0x9c/0x490
    [<ffffffff8167f627>] kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0x1f7/0x470
    [<ffffffffa02c9873>] if_usb_probe+0x63/0x446 [usb8xxx]
    [<ffffffffa022668a>] usb_probe_interface+0x1aa/0x3c0 [usbcore]
    [<ffffffff82b59630>] really_probe+0x190/0x480
    [<ffffffff82b59a19>] __driver_probe_device+0xf9/0x180
    [<ffffffff82b59af3>] driver_probe_device+0x53/0x130
    [<ffffffff82b5a075>] __device_attach_driver+0x105/0x130
    [<ffffffff82b55949>] bus_for_each_drv+0x129/0x190
    [<ffffffff82b593c9>] __device_attach+0x1c9/0x270
    [<ffffffff82b5a250>] device_initial_probe+0x20/0x30
    [<ffffffff82b579c2>] bus_probe_device+0x142/0x160
    [<ffffffff82b52e49>] device_add+0x829/0x1300
    [<ffffffffa02229b1>] usb_set_configuration+0xb01/0xcc0 [usbcore]
    [<ffffffffa0235c4e>] usb_generic_driver_probe+0x6e/0x90 [usbcore]
    [<ffffffffa022641f>] usb_probe_device+0x6f/0x130 [usbcore]

cardp is missing being freed in the error handling path of the probe
and the path of the disconnect, which will cause memory leak.

This patch adds the missing kfree().

Fixes: 876c9d3aeb ("[PATCH] Marvell Libertas 8388 802.11b/g USB driver")
Reported-by: Hulk Robot <hulkci@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Wang Hai <wanghai38@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211020120345.2016045-3-wanghai38@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
2021-11-18 19:16:42 +01:00
arch KVM: s390: Fix handle_sske page fault handling 2021-11-18 19:16:42 +01:00
block blk-cgroup: synchronize blkg creation against policy deactivation 2021-11-18 19:16:41 +01:00
certs certs: Add support for using elliptic curve keys for signing modules 2021-08-23 19:55:42 +03:00
crypto crypto: tcrypt - fix skcipher multi-buffer tests for 1420B blocks 2021-11-18 19:16:39 +01:00
Documentation fscrypt: allow 256-bit master keys with AES-256-XTS 2021-11-18 19:16:11 +01:00
drivers libertas: Fix possible memory leak in probe and disconnect 2021-11-18 19:16:42 +01:00
fs io-wq: Remove duplicate code in io_workqueue_create() 2021-11-18 19:16:34 +01:00
include tpm: fix Atmel TPM crash caused by too frequent queries 2021-11-18 19:16:41 +01:00
init bootconfig: init: Fix memblock leak in xbc_make_cmdline() 2021-10-10 22:27:40 -04:00
ipc ipc: remove memcg accounting for sops objects in do_semtimedop() 2021-09-14 10:22:11 -07:00
kernel tracing: Fix missing trace_boot_init_histograms kstrdup NULL checks 2021-11-18 19:16:41 +01:00
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mm kfence: always use static branches to guard kfence_alloc() 2021-11-12 15:05:49 +01:00
net tcp: don't free a FIN sk_buff in tcp_remove_empty_skb() 2021-11-18 19:16:41 +01:00
samples samples/kretprobes: Fix return value if register_kretprobe() failed 2021-11-18 19:16:42 +01:00
scripts leaking_addresses: Always print a trailing newline 2021-11-18 19:16:16 +01:00
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sound ASoC: tegra: Restore AC97 support 2021-11-18 19:16:01 +01:00
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