Re: [PATCH] Input: evdev - Fix incorrect kfree of err_free_client after vzalloc

[David Herrmann]

Hi

On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 3:45 AM, Yongtaek Lee <ytk.lee@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> This bug was introduced by commit 92eb77d ("Input: evdev - fall back
> to vmalloc for client event buffer").
>
> vzalloc is used to alloc memory as fallback in case of failure
> of kzalloc. But err_free_client was not considered on below case.
> 1. kzalloc fail
> 2. vzalloc success
> 3. evdev_open_device fail
> 4. kfree
>
> So that address checking is needed to call correct free function.
>
> Signed-off-by: Yongtaek Lee <ytk.lee@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Daniel Stone <daniels@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@xxxxxxxxx>

Thanks
David

> ---
>  drivers/input/evdev.c |    5 ++++-
>  1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/input/evdev.c b/drivers/input/evdev.c
> index ce953d8..f60daa0 100644
> --- a/drivers/input/evdev.c
> +++ b/drivers/input/evdev.c
> @@ -422,7 +422,10 @@ static int evdev_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)
>
>   err_free_client:
>         evdev_detach_client(evdev, client);
> -       kfree(client);
> +       if (is_vmalloc_addr(client))
> +               vfree(client);
> +       else
> +               kfree(client);
>         return error;
>  }
>
> --
> 1.7.1
>
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