Re: kmemleak findings about USB audio recording on 3.3.2

From: Clemens Ladisch
Date: Fri May 18 2012 - 12:01:05 EST


Alexander E. Patrakov wrote:
> On my home computer with linux-3.3.2, kmemleak found a lot of copies of
> this (not only from pulseaudio, but also from wine):
>
> unreferenced object 0xffff88021afaed40 (size 16):
> comm "pulseaudio", pid 839, jiffies 4294711382 (age 31392.844s)
> hex dump (first 16 bytes):
> 80 3e 00 00 c0 5d 00 00 00 7d 00 00 02 00 00 00 .>...]...}......
> backtrace:
> [<ffffffff811620d7>] create_object+0x127/0x2b0
> [<ffffffff81636d81>] kmemleak_alloc+0x21/0x50
> [<ffffffff81157bc3>] __kmalloc+0x103/0x1e0
> [<ffffffffa02f650b>] snd_usb_pcm_open+0x3bb/0x4c0 [snd_usb_audio]

Please try this patch.

--8<---------------------------------------------------------------->8--
ALSA: usb-audio: fix rate_list memory leak

The array of sample rates is reallocated every time when opening
the PCM device, but was freed only once when unplugging the device.

Reported-by: "Alexander E. Patrakov" <patrakov@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
sound/usb/pcm.c | 3 +++
1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

--- a/sound/usb/pcm.c
+++ b/sound/usb/pcm.c
@@ -783,6 +783,9 @@ static int snd_usb_pcm_check_knot(struct snd_pcm_runtime *runtime,
int count = 0, needs_knot = 0;
int err;

+ kfree(subs->rate_list.list);
+ subs->rate_list.list = NULL;
+
list_for_each_entry(fp, &subs->fmt_list, list) {
if (fp->rates & SNDRV_PCM_RATE_CONTINUOUS)
return 0;
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