Re: [PATCH 3/3] drivers/media/media-device: fix double free bug in _unregister()

[Shuah Khan]

On 06/15/2016 02:15 PM, Max Kellermann wrote:
> While removing all interfaces in media_device_unregister(), all
> media_interface pointers are freed.  This is illegal and results in
> double kfree() if any media_interface is still linked at this point;
> maybe because a userspace process still has a file handle.  Once the
> process closes the file handle, dvb_media_device_free() gets called,
> which frees the dvb_device.intf_devnode again.
> 
> This patch removes the unnecessary kfree() call, and documents who's
> responsible for really freeing it.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Max Kellermann <max@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/media/media-device.c |    4 +++-
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/media/media-device.c b/drivers/media/media-device.c
> index 33a9952..1db4707 100644
> --- a/drivers/media/media-device.c
> +++ b/drivers/media/media-device.c
> @@ -799,9 +799,11 @@ void media_device_unregister(struct media_device *mdev)
>  	/* Remove all interfaces from the media device */
>  	list_for_each_entry_safe(intf, tmp_intf, &mdev->interfaces,
>  				 graph_obj.list) {
> +		/* unlink the interface, but don't free it here; the
> +		   module which created it is responsible for freeing
> +		   it */
>  		__media_remove_intf_links(intf);
>  		media_gobj_destroy(&intf->graph_obj);
> -		kfree(intf);

This change introduces memory leaks, since drivers are relying on
media_device_unregister() to free interfaces.

thanks,
-- Shuah