Re: [PATCH 2/2] USB: core: Fix potential memory leak in usb_get_configuration()

[Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>]

On Wed, Feb 26, 2020 at 04:42:55PM +0800, Tiezhu Yang wrote:
> On 02/26/2020 04:09 PM, Johan Hovold wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 26, 2020 at 02:15:23PM +0800, Tiezhu Yang wrote:
> >> Make sure to free all the allocated memory before exiting from the function
> >> usb_get_configuration() when an error is encountered.
> > There's no leak in this function as far as I can tell. Any allocated
> > memory is released in usb_destroy_configuration() when the last
> > reference to the struct usb_device is dropped.
> 
> Yes, you are right, the allocated memory in usb_get_configuration()
> will be released in usb_destroy_configuration().
> 
> By the way, is it better to release the allocated memory as early as 
> possible
> in usb_get_configuration()? Just like this:
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/usb/core/config.c b/drivers/usb/core/config.c
> index bb63ee0..dd4ebeb 100644
> --- a/drivers/usb/core/config.c
> +++ b/drivers/usb/core/config.c
> @@ -885,12 +885,17 @@ int usb_get_configuration(struct usb_device *dev)
> 
>          length = ncfg * sizeof(char *);
>          dev->rawdescriptors = kzalloc(length, GFP_KERNEL);
> -       if (!dev->rawdescriptors)
> +       if (!dev->rawdescriptors) {
> +               kfree(dev->config);
>                  return -ENOMEM;
> +       }

No, there's no point in that. And just like your original proposal, this
would also introduce a double free.

Johan