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Dean Jenkins d0c8f338ab asix: Fix small memory leak in ax88772_unbind()
When Ethernet frames span mulitple URBs, the netdev buffer memory
pointed to by the asix_rx_fixup_info structure remains allocated
during the time gap between the 2 executions of asix_rx_fixup_internal().

This means that if ax88772_unbind() is called within this time
gap to free the memory of the parent private data structure then
a memory leak of the part filled netdev buffer memory will occur.

Therefore, create a new function asix_rx_fixup_common_free() to
free the memory of the netdev buffer and add a call to
asix_rx_fixup_common_free() from inside ax88772_unbind().

Consequently when an unbind occurs part way through receiving
an Ethernet frame, the netdev buffer memory that is holding part
of the received Ethernet frame will now be freed.

Signed-off-by: Dean Jenkins <Dean_Jenkins@mentor.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2017-08-07 10:10:19 -07:00
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