usb: subtle increased memory usage in u_serial
OK, the USB gadget serial driver actually has a couple of problems. On gs_open(), it always allocates and queues an additional QUEUE_SIZE (16) worth of requests, so with a loop like this: i=1 ; while echo $i > /dev/ttyGS0 ; do let i++ ; done eventually we run into OOM (Out of Memory). Technically, it is not a leak as everything gets freed up when the USB connection is broken, but not on gs_close(). With a USB device/gadget controller driver that has limited resources (e.g., Marvell has a this MAX_XDS_FOR_TR_CALLS of 64 for transmit and receive), so even after 4 stty -F /dev/ttyGS0 we cannot transmit anymore. We can still receive (not necessarily reliably) as now we have 16 * 4 = 64 descriptors/buffers ready, but the device is otherwise not usable. Signed-off-by: Jim Sung <jsung@syncadence.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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