[PATCH v2] wifi: rt2x00usb: fix devres lifetime

From: Johan Hovold

Date: Fri Mar 27 2026 - 07:38:20 EST


USB drivers bind to USB interfaces and any device managed resources
should have their lifetime tied to the interface rather than parent USB
device. This avoids issues like memory leaks when drivers are unbound
without their devices being physically disconnected (e.g. on probe
deferral or configuration changes).

Fix the USB anchor lifetime so that it is released on driver unbind.

Fixes: 8b4c0009313f ("rt2x00usb: Use usb anchor to manage URB")
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx # 4.7
Cc: Vishal Thanki <vishalthanki@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/net/wireless/ralink/rt2x00/rt2x00usb.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ralink/rt2x00/rt2x00usb.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ralink/rt2x00/rt2x00usb.c
index 83d00b6baf64..174d89b0b1d7 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/ralink/rt2x00/rt2x00usb.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ralink/rt2x00/rt2x00usb.c
@@ -826,7 +826,7 @@ int rt2x00usb_probe(struct usb_interface *usb_intf,
if (retval)
goto exit_free_device;

- rt2x00dev->anchor = devm_kmalloc(&usb_dev->dev,
+ rt2x00dev->anchor = devm_kmalloc(&usb_intf->dev,
sizeof(struct usb_anchor),
GFP_KERNEL);
if (!rt2x00dev->anchor) {
--
2.52.0