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authorAhmed S. Darwish <ahmed.darwish@valeo.com>2015-01-05 12:49:10 -0500
committerMarc Kleine-Budde <mkl@pengutronix.de>2015-01-15 16:58:00 +0100
commitb442723fcec445fb0ae1104888dd22cd285e0a91 (patch)
tree76164d09f5a3830f7e6dddb1ec9a93129c28b903
parent47e3485af0a7a65547a3267021851d4ea6474d09 (diff)
downloadchromiumos-intel-b442723fcec445fb0ae1104888dd22cd285e0a91.tar.gz
can: kvaser_usb: Don't free packets when tight on URBs
Flooding the Kvaser CAN to USB dongle with multiple reads and writes in high frequency caused seemingly-random panics in the kernel. On further inspection, it seems the driver erroneously freed the to-be-transmitted packet upon getting tight on URBs and returning NETDEV_TX_BUSY, leading to invalid memory writes and double frees at a later point in time. Note: Finding no more URBs/transmit-contexts and returning NETDEV_TX_BUSY is a driver bug in and out of itself: it means that our start/stop queue flow control is broken. This patch only fixes the (buggy) error handling code; the root cause shall be fixed in a later commit. Acked-by: Olivier Sobrie <olivier@sobrie.be> Signed-off-by: Ahmed S. Darwish <ahmed.darwish@valeo.com> Cc: linux-stable <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Marc Kleine-Budde <mkl@pengutronix.de>
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/can/usb/kvaser_usb.c10
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/can/usb/kvaser_usb.c b/drivers/net/can/usb/kvaser_usb.c
index 541fb7a05625aa..2e7d513a7c117d 100644
--- a/drivers/net/can/usb/kvaser_usb.c
+++ b/drivers/net/can/usb/kvaser_usb.c
@@ -1294,12 +1294,14 @@ static netdev_tx_t kvaser_usb_start_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb,
if (!urb) {
netdev_err(netdev, "No memory left for URBs\n");
stats->tx_dropped++;
- goto nourbmem;
+ dev_kfree_skb(skb);
+ return NETDEV_TX_OK;
}
buf = kmalloc(sizeof(struct kvaser_msg), GFP_ATOMIC);
if (!buf) {
stats->tx_dropped++;
+ dev_kfree_skb(skb);
goto nobufmem;
}
@@ -1334,6 +1336,7 @@ static netdev_tx_t kvaser_usb_start_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb,
}
}
+ /* This should never happen; it implies a flow control bug */
if (!context) {
netdev_warn(netdev, "cannot find free context\n");
ret = NETDEV_TX_BUSY;
@@ -1364,9 +1367,6 @@ static netdev_tx_t kvaser_usb_start_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb,
if (unlikely(err)) {
can_free_echo_skb(netdev, context->echo_index);
- skb = NULL; /* set to NULL to avoid double free in
- * dev_kfree_skb(skb) */
-
atomic_dec(&priv->active_tx_urbs);
usb_unanchor_urb(urb);
@@ -1388,8 +1388,6 @@ releasebuf:
kfree(buf);
nobufmem:
usb_free_urb(urb);
-nourbmem:
- dev_kfree_skb(skb);
return ret;
}