This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

rtlwifi: rtl8192ee: Fix memory leak when loading firmware

to the 4.9-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git%3Ba=su...

The filename of the patch is: rtlwifi-rtl8192ee-fix-memory-leak-when-loading-firmware.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let stable@vger.kernel.org know about it.

From 519ce2f933fa14acf69d5c8cabcc18711943d629 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001

From: Larry Finger Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2017 13:17:44 -0500 Subject: rtlwifi: rtl8192ee: Fix memory leak when loading firmware

From: Larry Finger Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net

commit 519ce2f933fa14acf69d5c8cabcc18711943d629 upstream.

In routine rtl92ee_set_fw_rsvdpagepkt(), the driver allocates an skb, but never calls rtl_cmd_send_packet(), which will free the buffer. All other rtlwifi drivers perform this operation correctly.

This problem has been in the driver since it was included in the kernel. Fortunately, each firmware load only leaks 4 buffers, which likely explains why it has not previously been detected.

Signed-off-by: Larry Finger Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo kvalo@codeaurora.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org

--- drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/rtl8192ee/fw.c | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/rtl8192ee/fw.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/rtl8192ee/fw.c @@ -664,7 +664,7 @@ void rtl92ee_set_fw_rsvdpagepkt(struct i struct rtl_priv *rtlpriv = rtl_priv(hw); struct rtl_mac *mac = rtl_mac(rtl_priv(hw)); struct sk_buff *skb = NULL; - + bool rtstatus; u32 totalpacketlen; u8 u1rsvdpageloc[5] = { 0 }; bool b_dlok = false; @@ -727,7 +727,9 @@ void rtl92ee_set_fw_rsvdpagepkt(struct i memcpy((u8 *)skb_put(skb, totalpacketlen), &reserved_page_packet, totalpacketlen);

- b_dlok = true; + rtstatus = rtl_cmd_send_packet(hw, skb); + if (rtstatus) + b_dlok = true;

if (b_dlok) { RT_TRACE(rtlpriv, COMP_POWER, DBG_LOUD ,

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net are

queue-4.9/rtlwifi-fix-uninitialized-rtlhal-last_suspend_sec-time.patch queue-4.9/rtlwifi-rtl8192ee-fix-memory-leak-when-loading-firmware.patch