Re: [RESEND][PATCH 2/4] NFC: st21nfca: Fix memory OOB and leak issues in connectivity events handler

From: Andy Shevchenko
Date: Fri Apr 20 2018 - 08:39:57 EST


On Wed, 2018-04-18 at 15:35 +0530, Amit Pundir wrote:

> if (skb->data[transaction->aid_len + 2] !=
> - NFC_EVT_TRANSACTION_PARAMS_TAG)
> + NFC_EVT_TRANSACTION_PARAMS_TAG ||
> + skb->len < transaction->aid_len + transaction-
> >params_len + 4) {

> + devm_kfree(dev, transaction);

Oh, no.

This is not memory leak per se, this is bad choice of devm_ API where it
should use plain kmalloc() / kfree().

> return -EPROTO;
> + }

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Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Intel Finland Oy