Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2007 02:15:36 +0200 (CEST)
From: Stefan Richter <[email protected]>
Subject: firewire: fix memory leak of fw_request instances
Found and debugged by Jay Fenlason <[email protected]>.
The bug was especially noticeable with direct I/O over fw-sbp2.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Kristian Høgsberg <[email protected]>
---
Same as commit 9c9bdf4d50730fd04b06077e22d7a83b585f26b5.
drivers/firewire/fw-transaction.c | 4 +++-
drivers/firewire/fw-transaction.h | 4 ++++
2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
Index: linux-2.6.22/drivers/firewire/fw-transaction.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.22.orig/drivers/firewire/fw-transaction.c
+++ linux-2.6.22/drivers/firewire/fw-transaction.c
@@ -605,8 +605,10 @@ fw_send_response(struct fw_card *card, s
* check is sufficient to ensure we don't send response to
* broadcast packets or posted writes.
*/
- if (request->ack != ACK_PENDING)
+ if (request->ack != ACK_PENDING) {
+ kfree(request);
return;
+ }
if (rcode == RCODE_COMPLETE)
fw_fill_response(&request->response, request->request_header,
Index: linux-2.6.22/drivers/firewire/fw-transaction.h
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.22.orig/drivers/firewire/fw-transaction.h
+++ linux-2.6.22/drivers/firewire/fw-transaction.h
@@ -124,6 +124,10 @@ typedef void (*fw_transaction_callback_t
size_t length,
void *callback_data);
+/*
+ * Important note: The callback must guarantee that either fw_send_response()
+ * or kfree() is called on the @request.
+ */
typedef void (*fw_address_callback_t)(struct fw_card *card,
struct fw_request *request,
int tcode, int destination, int source,
--
Stefan Richter
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