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Title:
rtlwifi: aggresive memory leak
Status in linux package in Ubuntu:
Confirmed
Bug description:
Hey, i got a memory leak on Ubuntu 18.04.2 even in console mode (no X/GUI)
the memory usage grows slowly to take all the available RAM when i let the
computer running over the night (with just top and irssi), and i have to reboot
to get things back to normal. I didn't have this problem on Ubuntu 17.10 but i
was still flooded with message about pci aer taking lots of disk space in the
logs, but pci=noaer fixed this problem and i had no memory leak.
The computer is a common laptop: HP Pavilion.
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Kernel log gets spammed with AERs so owner uses "pci=noaer"; that was briefly
disabled to capture the AERs.
Memory seems to be consumed (~6 GB of 8GB) just by leaving PC
overnight booted just to console (systemd.unit=multi-user.target).
The memory leak doesn't affect Windows but owner is going to check
Windows Event Log for signs of AERs being logged.
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Original suspect of AER is not guilty.
This turns out to be a bug in the rtlwifi driver where in some rare
circumstances it fails to free an sk_buf.
Reporter has been testing a DKMS build of rtlwfi with the fix applied
and confirms it solves the issue.
Upstream has the commit. Can we get this cherry-picked into all
releases?
commit 8cfa272b0d321160ebb5b45073e39ef0a6ad73f2
Author: Larry Finger <[email protected]>
Date: Sat Nov 17 20:55:03 2018 -0600
rtlwifi: Fix leak of skb when processing C2H_BT_INFO
With commit 0a9f8f0a1ba9 ("rtlwifi: fix btmpinfo timeout while processing
C2H_BT_INFO"), calling rtl_c2hcmd_enqueue() with rtl_c2h_fast_cmd() true,
the routine returns without freeing that skb, thereby leaking it.
This issue has been discussed at
https://github.com/lwfinger/rtlwifi_new/issues/401
and the fix tested there.
Fixes: 0a9f8f0a1ba9 ("rtlwifi: fix btmpinfo timeout while processing
C2H_BT_INFO")
Reported-and-tested-by: Francisco Machado Magalhães Neto
<[email protected]>
Cc: Francisco Machado Magalhães Neto <[email protected]>
Cc: Ping-Ke Shih <[email protected]>
Cc: Stable <[email protected]> # 4.18+
Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <[email protected]>
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/base.c
b/drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/base.c
index f4122c8fdd97..ef9b502ce576 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/base.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/base.c
@@ -2289,6 +2289,7 @@ void rtl_c2hcmd_enqueue(struct ieee80211_hw *hw, struct
sk_buff *skb)
if (rtl_c2h_fast_cmd(hw, skb)) {
rtl_c2h_content_parsing(hw, skb);
+ kfree_skb(skb);
return;
}
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