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authorStefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>2007-07-19 09:28:42 +0200
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>2007-08-09 14:27:37 -0700
commitb336114c8eab95d6892efd325247d2d5860d3ae0 (patch)
tree92c87b39f64634f96ac9e3953165586fb72f88d4
parent717bb45a019dd5e298f261a316cdf3b9298b4544 (diff)
firewire: fix memory leak of fw_request instances
Found and debugged by Jay Fenlason <fenlason@redhat.com>. The bug was especially noticeable with direct I/O over fw-sbp2. Same as commit 9c9bdf4d50730fd04b06077e22d7a83b585f26b5. Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de> Signed-off-by: Kristian Høgsberg <krh@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
-rw-r--r--drivers/firewire/fw-transaction.c4
-rw-r--r--drivers/firewire/fw-transaction.h4
2 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/firewire/fw-transaction.c b/drivers/firewire/fw-transaction.c
index 80d0121463d0..a506a1fef9a3 100644
--- a/drivers/firewire/fw-transaction.c
+++ b/drivers/firewire/fw-transaction.c
@@ -605,8 +605,10 @@ fw_send_response(struct fw_card *card, struct fw_request *request, int rcode)
* 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,
diff --git a/drivers/firewire/fw-transaction.h b/drivers/firewire/fw-transaction.h
index b6b42fa3fff0..e2b9ca43ffaa 100644
--- a/drivers/firewire/fw-transaction.h
+++ b/drivers/firewire/fw-transaction.h
@@ -124,6 +124,10 @@ typedef void (*fw_transaction_callback_t)(struct fw_card *card, int rcode,
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,