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Commit 39707c2a authored by Hemant Kumar's avatar Hemant Kumar Committed by David S. Miller
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net: usb: Fix memory leak on Tx data path



Driver anchors the tx urbs and defers the urb submission if
a transmit request comes when the interface is suspended.
Anchoring urb increments the urb reference count. These
deferred urbs are later accessed by calling usb_get_from_anchor()
for submission during interface resume. usb_get_from_anchor()
unanchors the urb but urb reference count remains same.
This causes the urb reference count to remain non-zero
after usb_free_urb() gets called and urb never gets freed.
Hence call usb_put_urb() after anchoring the urb to properly
balance the reference count for these deferred urbs. Also,
unanchor these deferred urbs during disconnect, to free them
up.

Signed-off-by: default avatarHemant Kumar <hemantk@codeaurora.org>
Acked-by: default avatarOliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent bfc0d8c3
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