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From: Manu Abraham <abraham.manu@gmail.com>
To: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
Cc: Florin Malita <fmalita@gmail.com>,
	Trent Piepho <xyzzy@speakeasy.org>,
	v4l-dvb maintainer list <v4l-dvb-maintainer@linuxtv.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [v4l-dvb-maintainer] [PATCH] V4L/DVB: potential leak in	dvb-bt8xx
Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2006 21:39:21 +0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <45327249.2040909@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1160932715.5364.1.camel@praia>

Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
> Em Dom, 2006-10-15 às 20:35 +0400, Manu Abraham escreveu:
>> Florin Malita wrote:
>>> Trent Piepho wrote:
>>>> I believe that 'state' will be kfree'd by the dst_attach() function if there
>>>> is a failure.  Not what you would expect, to have it allocated in the bt8xx
>>>> driver (why do is there??) and freed on error in a different function.
>>>>   
>>> Hm, you're right - it is kfreed in dst_attach(). But we're still missing
>>> the kmalloc result check...
>>>
>> This patch was applied a few days back
> 
> Yes. 
> 
> It is at:
> http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/mchehab/v4l-dvb.git;a=commit;h=626ae83bb24927ca015503448f0199842ae2e8da

Ok.

> 
> I've already asked Linus to pull it, together with other 17 fixes, to
> Mainstream.
>> Manu
> Cheers, 
> Mauro.


Thanks,
Manu




      reply	other threads:[~2006-10-15 17:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-10-14 17:39 [PATCH] V4L/DVB: potential leak in dvb-bt8xx Florin Malita
2006-10-15  0:33 ` [v4l-dvb-maintainer] " Trent Piepho
2006-10-15 16:02   ` Florin Malita
2006-10-15 16:35     ` Manu Abraham
2006-10-15 17:18       ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2006-10-15 17:39         ` Manu Abraham [this message]

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