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From: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
To: Navid Emamdoost <navid.emamdoost@gmail.com>
Cc: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org, kjlu@umn.edu,
	Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de>,
	Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.com>,
	emamd001@umn.edu, smccaman@umn.edu, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [alsa-devel] [PATCH] ALSA: usb-audio: Fix memory leak in __snd_usbmidi_create
Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2019 07:27:40 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <s5hpnihmlk3.wl-tiwai@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191027221007.14317-1-navid.emamdoost@gmail.com>

On Sun, 27 Oct 2019 23:10:06 +0100,
Navid Emamdoost wrote:
> 
> In the implementation of __snd_usbmidi_create() there is a memory leak
> caused by incorrect goto destination. Go to free_midi if
> snd_usbmidi_create_endpoints_midiman() or snd_usbmidi_create_endpoints()
> fail.

No, this will lead to double-free.  After registering the rawmidi
interface at snd_usbmidi_create_rawmidi(), the common destructor will
be called via rawmidi private_free callback, and this will release the
all resources already.


thanks,

Takashi

> 
> Fixes: 731209cc0417 ("ALSA: usb-midi: Use common error handling code in __snd_usbmidi_create()")
> Signed-off-by: Navid Emamdoost <navid.emamdoost@gmail.com>
> ---
>  sound/usb/midi.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/sound/usb/midi.c b/sound/usb/midi.c
> index b737f0ec77d0..22db37fbfbbd 100644
> --- a/sound/usb/midi.c
> +++ b/sound/usb/midi.c
> @@ -2476,7 +2476,7 @@ int __snd_usbmidi_create(struct snd_card *card,
>  	else
>  		err = snd_usbmidi_create_endpoints(umidi, endpoints);
>  	if (err < 0)
> -		goto exit;
> +		goto free_midi;
>  
>  	usb_autopm_get_interface_no_resume(umidi->iface);
>  
> -- 
> 2.17.1
> 
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-10-27 22:10 [alsa-devel] [PATCH] ALSA: usb-audio: Fix memory leak in __snd_usbmidi_create Navid Emamdoost
2019-10-28  6:27 ` Takashi Iwai [this message]
2019-10-28 16:25   ` Navid Emamdoost
2019-10-28 16:38     ` Takashi Iwai
2019-10-28 16:42       ` Navid Emamdoost
2019-10-28 16:38     ` Clemens Ladisch

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