Re: [PATCH] media: usb: fix memory leak in stk_camera_probe

[Dongliang Mu]

On Thu, Sep 2, 2021 at 6:49 PM Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi Dongliang,
>
> On 02/09/2021 12:23, Dongliang Mu wrote:
> > On Fri, Jul 23, 2021 at 6:11 PM Dongliang Mu <mudongliangabcd@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>
> >> On Wed, Jul 14, 2021 at 11:23 AM Dongliang Mu <mudongliangabcd@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> stk_camera_probe mistakenly execute usb_get_intf and increase the
> >>> refcount of interface->dev.
> >>>
> >>> Fix this by removing the execution of usb_get_intf.
> >>
> >> Any idea about this patch?
> >
> > +cc Dan Carpenter, gregkh
> >
> > There is no reply in this thread in one month. Can someone give some
> > feedback on this patch?
>
> I saw that it was marked as Obsoleted in patchwork, but I might have confused
> this patch with similar, but not identical, patches for this driver.
>
> I've moved the state back to New.
>
> Comments follow below:
>
> >
> >>
> >>>
> >>> Reported-by: Dongliang Mu <mudongliangabcd@xxxxxxxxx>
> >>> Fixes: 0aa77f6c2954 ("[media] move the remaining USB drivers to drivers/media/usb")
> >>> Signed-off-by: Dongliang Mu <mudongliangabcd@xxxxxxxxx>
> >>> ---
> >>>  drivers/media/usb/stkwebcam/stk-webcam.c | 1 -
> >>>  1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
> >>>
> >>> diff --git a/drivers/media/usb/stkwebcam/stk-webcam.c b/drivers/media/usb/stkwebcam/stk-webcam.c
> >>> index a45d464427c4..5bd8e85b9452 100644
> >>> --- a/drivers/media/usb/stkwebcam/stk-webcam.c
> >>> +++ b/drivers/media/usb/stkwebcam/stk-webcam.c
> >>> @@ -1311,7 +1311,6 @@ static int stk_camera_probe(struct usb_interface *interface,
> >>>
> >>>         dev->udev = udev;
> >>>         dev->interface = interface;
> >>> -       usb_get_intf(interface);
>
> Even though this increments the refcount (which might well be unnecessary),
> it is also decremented with usb_put_intf. So is there actually a bug here?
>

Yes, if the increment and decrement of refcount are balanced, it's fine.

But this probe function only increases the refcount, but forgets to
decrease the refcount.

> And if this is changed, then I expect that both get_intf and put_intf should be
> removed, and not just the get.
>
> Regards,
>
>         Hans
>
> >>>
> >>>         if (hflip != -1)
> >>>                 dev->vsettings.hflip = hflip;
> >>> --
> >>> 2.25.1
> >>>
>