[ 3.5.y.z extended stable ] Patch "ath9k_htc: Fix memory leak" has been added to staging queue

[Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski]

This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    ath9k_htc: Fix memory leak

to the linux-3.5.y-queue branch of the 3.5.y.z extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.5.y-queue

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.5.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Herton

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>From 0f6d4ea0d9f57597dd1b7949da8848278e7aa3bc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sujith Manoharan <c_manoha at qca.qualcomm.com>
Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2013 16:07:48 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] ath9k_htc: Fix memory leak

commit 0981c3b24ef664f5611008a6e6d0622fac6d892b upstream.

SKBs that are allocated in the HTC layer do not have callbacks
registered and hence ended up not being freed, Fix this by freeing
them properly in the TX completion routine.

Reported-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger at lwfinger.net>
Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <c_manoha at qca.qualcomm.com>
Tested-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger at lwfinger.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville at tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski <herton.krzesinski at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/htc_hst.c |    2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/htc_hst.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/htc_hst.c
index 4a9570d..aac4a40 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/htc_hst.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/htc_hst.c
@@ -344,6 +344,8 @@ void ath9k_htc_txcompletion_cb(struct htc_target *htc_handle,
 			endpoint->ep_callbacks.tx(endpoint->ep_callbacks.priv,
 						  skb, htc_hdr->endpoint_id,
 						  txok);
+		} else {
+			kfree_skb(skb);
 		}
 	}

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