From: Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@metafoo.de>
To: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Cc: Liam Girdwood <lgirdwood@gmail.com>,
Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>, Jaroslav Kysela <perex@perex.cz>,
Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>,
alsa-devel@alsa-project.org, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org,
"olof@lixom.net" <olof@lixom.net>
Subject: Re: [patch] ASoC: dapm: using freed pointer in dapm_kcontrol_add_widget()
Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2013 09:02:45 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <51F8D2B5.7060504@metafoo.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130731085244.GB8210@elgon.mountain>
On 07/31/2013 10:52 AM, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> There is a typo here so we end up using the old freed pointer instead of
> the newly allocated one. (If the "n" is zero then the code works,
> obviously).
>
> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Thanks.
Acked-by: Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@metafoo.de>
Olof, can you check whether this fixes the crash you see?
> ---
> Only needed in linux-next
>
> diff --git a/sound/soc/soc-dapm.c b/sound/soc/soc-dapm.c
> index 9abb3b2..d74c356 100644
> --- a/sound/soc/soc-dapm.c
> +++ b/sound/soc/soc-dapm.c
> @@ -225,13 +225,13 @@ static int dapm_kcontrol_add_widget(struct snd_kcontrol *kcontrol,
>
> new_data = krealloc(data, sizeof(*data) + sizeof(widget) * n,
> GFP_KERNEL);
> - if (!data)
> + if (!new_data)
> return -ENOMEM;
>
> - data->wlist.widgets[n - 1] = widget;
> - data->wlist.num_widgets = n;
> + new_data->wlist.widgets[n - 1] = widget;
> + new_data->wlist.num_widgets = n;
>
> - kcontrol->private_data = data;
> + kcontrol->private_data = new_data;
>
> return 0;
> }
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-07-31 9:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-07-31 8:52 [patch] ASoC: dapm: using freed pointer in dapm_kcontrol_add_widget() Dan Carpenter
2013-07-31 9:02 ` Lars-Peter Clausen [this message]
2013-07-31 18:17 ` Olof Johansson
2013-07-31 18:33 ` Lars-Peter Clausen
2013-07-31 18:44 ` Lars-Peter Clausen
2013-07-31 20:05 ` Mark Brown
2013-08-01 3:49 ` Olof Johansson
2013-07-31 11:19 ` Mark Brown
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