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From: Ping-Ke Shih <pkshih@realtek.com>
To: "5mghybrid@khu.ac.kr" <5mghybrid@khu.ac.kr>,
	"linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Jes Sorensen <Jes.Sorensen@gmail.com>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: [PATCH rtw-next v2 1/4] wifi: rtl8xxxu: free RX skb when URB submission fails
Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2026 01:18:10 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <de086af71cc346d9ac8ca4e7bf8787e0@realtek.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260913-codex-rtw-rx-v2-v2-1-f09c964e0b96@khu.ac.kr>

kimwooseok via B4 Relay <devnull+5mghybrid.khu.ac.kr@kernel.org> wrote:
> From: kimwooseok <5mghybrid@khu.ac.kr>
> 
> A failed RX URB submission can leak the skb allocated for that attempt.
> rtl8xxxu_submit_rx_urb() allocates the buffer and stores it in urb.context,
> but if usb_submit_urb() fails, it only unanchors the URB. The RX worker
> queues ENOMEM/EAGAIN failures for retry with that buffer still attached.
> 
> On the next attempt, rtl8xxxu_submit_rx_urb() allocates another skb and
> overwrites urb.context, losing the reference to the previous buffer.
> Stopping before the retry also leaks the buffer because pending-request
> cleanup frees only the URB.
> 
> Fix the leak at the submission failure by making rtl8xxxu_submit_rx_urb()
> responsible for both allocating the skb and releasing it when submission
> fails. Free the newly allocated skb and clear urb.context before returning
> the error, so neither retry nor stop receives a pending URB that still
> owns a buffer. Remove the caller-side skb cleanup from start and the RX
> worker; those callers now handle only whether to retry or release the URB.
> 
> Fixes: 26f1fad29ad9 ("New driver: rtl8xxxu (mac80211)")
> Assisted-by: GPT-6 Astra
> Signed-off-by: kimwooseok <5mghybrid@khu.ac.kr>

Can you give your s-o-b more formal? Like, Kim Woo-Seok?

Reviewed-by: Ping-Ke Shih <pkshih@realtek.com>



  reply	other threads:[~2026-09-17  1:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-09-13  7:33 [PATCH rtw-next v2 0/4] wifi: rtl8xxxu: keep RX requests available across transient errors kimwooseok via B4 Relay
2026-09-13  7:33 ` [PATCH rtw-next v2 1/4] wifi: rtl8xxxu: free RX skb when URB submission fails kimwooseok via B4 Relay
2026-09-17  1:18   ` Ping-Ke Shih [this message]
2026-09-17  1:57     ` ‍김우석[학생](전자정보대학 전자공학과)
2026-09-17  7:31       ` ‍김우석[학생](전자정보대학 전자공학과)
2026-09-13  7:33 ` [PATCH rtw-next v2 2/4] wifi: rtl8xxxu: unwind incomplete receive startup kimwooseok via B4 Relay
2026-09-17  3:20   ` Ping-Ke Shih
2026-09-17  7:27     ` ‍김우석[학생](전자정보대학 전자공학과)
2026-09-13  7:33 ` [PATCH rtw-next v2 3/4] wifi: rtl8xxxu: preserve RX requests across recoverable transfer errors kimwooseok via B4 Relay
2026-09-17  3:45   ` Ping-Ke Shih
2026-09-17  7:29     ` ‍김우석[학생](전자정보대학 전자공학과)
2026-09-17  7:52       ` Ping-Ke Shih
2026-09-13  7:33 ` [PATCH rtw-next v2 4/4] wifi: rtl8xxxu: test RX ownership and recovery across failures kimwooseok via B4 Relay
2026-09-17  6:27   ` Ping-Ke Shih
2026-09-17  7:30     ` ‍김우석[학생](전자정보대학 전자공학과)

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