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From: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
To: Linux Media Mailing List <linux-media@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH] Fix the risk of an oops at dvb_dmx_release
Date: Mon, 01 Feb 2010 11:35:22 -0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B66D89A.2030207@redhat.com> (raw)

dvb_dmx_init tries to allocate virtual memory for 2 pointers: filter and feed.

If the second vmalloc fails, filter is freed, but the pointer keeps pointing
to the old place. Later, when dvb_dmx_release() is called, it will try to
free an already freed memory, causing an OOPS.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
---
 drivers/media/dvb/dvb-core/dvb_demux.c |    1 +
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/media/dvb/dvb-core/dvb_demux.c b/drivers/media/dvb/dvb-core/dvb_demux.c
index b78cfb7..a78408e 100644
--- a/drivers/media/dvb/dvb-core/dvb_demux.c
+++ b/drivers/media/dvb/dvb-core/dvb_demux.c
@@ -1246,6 +1246,7 @@ int dvb_dmx_init(struct dvb_demux *dvbdemux)
 	dvbdemux->feed = vmalloc(dvbdemux->feednum * sizeof(struct dvb_demux_feed));
 	if (!dvbdemux->feed) {
 		vfree(dvbdemux->filter);
+		dvbdemux->filter = NULL;
 		return -ENOMEM;
 	}
 	for (i = 0; i < dvbdemux->filternum; i++) {
-- 
1.6.6.1



             reply	other threads:[~2010-02-01 13:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-02-01 13:35 Mauro Carvalho Chehab [this message]
2010-02-01 15:00 ` [PATCH] Fix the risk of an oops at dvb_dmx_release Chicken Shack
2010-02-05  2:46 ` Andy Walls

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