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rtl8723bs memory leak

PATCH Tomas Hlavacek 1 participant 1 message Jun 12, 2017 Staging

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Hello!

It seems that we have discovered a memory leak in the rtl8723bs driver. The problem is that when the SDIO read fails in sd_recv_rxfifo() (in drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/hal/sdio_ops.c, l1016) the function simply returns NULL, but the dequeued recvbuf is never returned to the precvpriv->free_recv_buf_queue.

After several SDIO read failures it would bleed off the recvbuf queue and it would subsequently stop processing packets while producing endless flow of messages like this:

[   49.618639] RTL8723BS: ERROR sd_recv_rxfifo: alloc recvbuf FAIL!
[   49.624340] RTL8723BS: ERROR precvbuf is Null for 8 times because alloc memory failed
[   49.641654] RTL8723BS: ERROR sd_recv_rxfifo: alloc recvbuf FAIL!
[   49.648015] RTL8723BS: ERROR precvbuf is Null for 9 times because alloc memory failed
[   49.665105] RTL8723BS: ERROR sd_recv_rxfifo: alloc recvbuf FAIL!
[   49.671474] RTL8723BS: ERROR precvbuf is Null for 10 times because alloc memory failed
[   49.679394] RTL8723BS: ERROR exit because alloc memory failed more than 10 times

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A possible fix might look like the following (however, this is only my testing hot-fix to make the driver work and I have to admit that I do not fully understand the whole thing - that's why I am not posting a patch at this point):

drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/hal/sdio_ops.c +0 -0
index 6285b72faa9a..ad65cd74c3c8 100644
@@ -1008,6 +1008,7 @@ static struct recv_buf *sd_recv_rxfifo(struct adapter *padapter, u32 size)
		}

		if (precvbuf->pskb == NULL) {
+			rtw_enqueue_recvbuf(precvbuf, &precvpriv->free_recv_buf_queue);
			DBG_871X("%s: alloc_skb fail! read =%d\n", __func__, readsize);
			return NULL;
		}
@@ -1017,6 +1018,7 @@ static struct recv_buf *sd_recv_rxfifo(struct adapter *padapter, u32 size)
	preadbuf = precvbuf->pskb->data;
	ret = sdio_read_port(&padapter->iopriv.intf, WLAN_RX0FF_DEVICE_ID, 
readsize, preadbuf);
	if (ret == _FAIL) {
+		rtw_enqueue_recvbuf(precvbuf, &precvpriv->free_recv_buf_queue);
		RT_TRACE(_module_hci_ops_os_c_, _drv_err_, ("%s: read port FAIL!\n", 
__func__));
		return NULL;
	}

Cheers,
Tomas