From: Eslam Khafagy <eslam.medhat1993@gmail.com>
To: Max Staudt <max@enpas.org>,
roderick.colenbrander@sony.com, jikos@kernel.org,
bentiss@kernel.org
Cc: linux-input@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
stable@vger.kernel.org,
syzbot+4f5f81e1456a1f645bf8@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] HID: memory leak in dualshock4_get_calibration_data
Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2025 17:09:03 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <a3d10075-3ff3-419e-8231-0a1558195d0f@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ddb16ea8-7588-4c0a-9e34-6bd8babd598f@enpas.org>
On 11/16/25 06:34, Max Staudt wrote:
> On 11/16/25 11:27 AM, Eslam Khafagy wrote:
>> function dualshock4_get_calibration_data allocates memory to pointer
>> buf. however the function may exit prematurely due to transfer_failure
>> in this case it does not handle freeing memory.
>>
>> this patch handles memory deallocation at exit.
>
> Reviewed-by: Max Staudt <max@enpas.org>
>
>
> One minor thing that I forgot: I see that the commit message is all
> lower case. Proper capitalisation helps readability and matches the
> kernel style. No need to resend this time, but in case you're sending
> a v3 for any other reason, it'd be great if you picked this up as well :)
>
Oh, ok. but, no plans for v3 for now.
> Thanks for your patch!
>
welcome
> Max
>
prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-11-16 15:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-11-16 2:27 [PATCH v2] HID: memory leak in dualshock4_get_calibration_data Eslam Khafagy
2025-11-16 4:34 ` Max Staudt
2025-11-16 15:09 ` Eslam Khafagy [this message]
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