3.2.77-rc1 review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Peter Wu <[email protected]>

commit 17bc55864f81dd730d05f09b1641312a7990d636 upstream.

Free skb for received frames with a wrong checksum. This can happen
pretty rapidly, exhausting all memory.

This fixes a memleak (detected with kmemleak). Originally found while
using monitor mode, but it also appears during managed mode (once the
link is up).

Signed-off-by: Peter Wu <[email protected]>
ACKed-by: Larry Finger <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <[email protected]>
[bwh: Backported to 3.2: adjust filename, context]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <[email protected]>
---
 drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/usb.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

--- a/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/usb.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/usb.c
@@ -500,6 +500,8 @@ static void _rtl_usb_rx_process_noagg(st
                } else {
                        dev_kfree_skb_any(skb);
                }
+       } else {
+               dev_kfree_skb_any(skb);
        }
 }
 

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