Re: [alsa-devel] [PATCH] ALSA: firewire: fix a memory leak bug

[Takashi Sakamoto]

Hi,

On Thu, Aug 8, 2019, at 14:53, Wenwen Wang wrote:
> In iso_packets_buffer_init(), 'b->packets' is allocated through
> kmalloc_array(). Then, the aligned packet size is checked. If it is
> larger than PAGE_SIZE, -EINVAL will be returned to indicate the error.
> However, the allocated 'b->packets' is not deallocated on this path,
> leading to a memory leak.
> 
> To fix the above issue, free 'b->packets' before returning the error code.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Wenwen Wang <wenwen@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  sound/firewire/packets-buffer.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

Reviewed-by: Takashi Sakamoto <o-takashi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

And this bug exists till its first commit for v2.6.39.

Fixes: 31ef9134eb52 ("ALSA: add LaCie FireWire Speakers/Griffin FireWave Surround driver")
Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> # v2.6.39+


Thanks

Takashi Sakamoto