Re: [PATCH 3.13 110/149] ASoC: pcm: free path list before exiting from error conditions

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

On Sat, Mar 22, 2014 at 03:53:08PM +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Thu, 2014-03-20 at 17:04 -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > 3.13-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
> > 
> > ------------------
> > 
> > From: Patrick Lai <plai@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > 
> > commit e4ad1accb28d0ed8cea6f12395d58686ad344ca7 upstream.
> > 
> > dpcm_path_get() allocates dynamic memory to hold path list.
> > Corresponding dpcm_path_put() must be called to free the memory.
> > dpcm_path_put() is not called under several error conditions.
> > This leads to memory leak.
> 
> This is broken.  dpcm_path_get() may return -ENOMEM and not initialise
> the list at all.
> 
> If snd_soc_dapm_dai_get_connected_widgets() can fail (I don't think it
> can) then dpcm_path_get() should be responsible for freeing the list
> before returning.

Thanks, now dropped.

greg k-h
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