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rtlwifi: fix memory leak for USB device

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commit 17bc55864f81dd730d05f09b1641312a7990d636 upstream.

Free skb for received frames with a wrong checksum. This can happen
pretty rapidly, exhausting all memory.

This fixes a memleak (detected with kmemleak). Originally found while
using monitor mode, but it also appears during managed mode (once the
link is up).

Signed-off-by: Peter Wu <peter@lekensteyn.nl>
ACKed-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Peter Wu 2015-12-07 01:07:31 +01:00 committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
parent ee8d049d0c
commit 7e92cfc478
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drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/usb.c
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@ -531,6 +531,8 @@ static void _rtl_usb_rx_process_noagg(struct ieee80211_hw *hw,
ieee80211_rx(hw, skb);
else
dev_kfree_skb_any(skb);
} else {
dev_kfree_skb_any(skb);
}
}