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

From: Takashi Iwai
Date: Thu Aug 08 2019 - 05:12:52 EST


On Thu, 08 Aug 2019 11:04:03 +0200,
Takashi Sakamoto wrote:
>
> 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+

Applied, thanks.


Takashi