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Commit d0c8f338 authored by Dean Jenkins's avatar Dean Jenkins Committed by David S. Miller
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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: default avatarDean Jenkins <Dean_Jenkins@mentor.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent 960eb4ee
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