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* [PATCH] staging: comedi: drivers: prevent memory leak
@ 2019-09-17  2:41 Navid Emamdoost
  2019-09-17  6:33 ` Dan Carpenter
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Navid Emamdoost @ 2019-09-17  2:41 UTC (permalink / raw)
  Cc: emamd001, smccaman, kjlu, Navid Emamdoost, Ian Abbott,
	H Hartley Sweeten, Greg Kroah-Hartman, devel, linux-kernel

In das1800_attach, the buffer allocated via kmalloc_array needs to be
released if an error happens.

Signed-off-by: Navid Emamdoost <navid.emamdoost@gmail.com>
---
 drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/das1800.c | 12 +++++++++---
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/das1800.c b/drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/das1800.c
index f16aa7e9f4f3..5f2d5f7a6229 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/das1800.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/das1800.c
@@ -1237,12 +1237,16 @@ static int das1800_attach(struct comedi_device *dev,
 
 	dev->pacer = comedi_8254_init(dev->iobase + DAS1800_COUNTER,
 				      I8254_OSC_BASE_5MHZ, I8254_IO8, 0);
-	if (!dev->pacer)
+	if (!dev->pacer) {
+		kfree(devpriv->fifo_buf);
 		return -ENOMEM;
+	}
 
 	ret = comedi_alloc_subdevices(dev, 4);
-	if (ret)
+	if (ret) {
+		kfree(devpriv->fifo_buf);
 		return ret;
+	}
 
 	/*
 	 * Analog Input subdevice
@@ -1290,8 +1294,10 @@ static int das1800_attach(struct comedi_device *dev,
 		s->insn_write	= das1800_ao_insn_write;
 
 		ret = comedi_alloc_subdev_readback(s);
-		if (ret)
+		if (ret) {
+			kfree(devpriv->fifo_buf);
 			return ret;
+		}
 
 		/* initialize all channels to 0V */
 		for (i = 0; i < s->n_chan; i++) {
-- 
2.17.1


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* Re: [PATCH] staging: comedi: drivers: prevent memory leak
  2019-09-17  2:41 [PATCH] staging: comedi: drivers: prevent memory leak Navid Emamdoost
@ 2019-09-17  6:33 ` Dan Carpenter
  2019-09-17 10:13   ` Ian Abbott
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Dan Carpenter @ 2019-09-17  6:33 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Navid Emamdoost
  Cc: devel, Greg Kroah-Hartman, kjlu, linux-kernel, Ian Abbott,
	emamd001, smccaman

On Mon, Sep 16, 2019 at 09:41:43PM -0500, Navid Emamdoost wrote:
> In das1800_attach, the buffer allocated via kmalloc_array needs to be
> released if an error happens.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Navid Emamdoost <navid.emamdoost@gmail.com>

Commedit calls ->detach() if the ->attach() fails so this patch would
lead to a double free.  See comedi_device_attach():

drivers/staging/comedi/drivers.c
   983          }
   984          if (!driv->attach) {
   985                  /* driver does not support manual configuration */
   986                  dev_warn(dev->class_dev,
   987                           "driver '%s' does not support attach using comedi_config\n",
   988                           driv->driver_name);
   989                  module_put(driv->module);
   990                  ret = -EIO;
   991                  goto out;
   992          }
   993          dev->driver = driv;
   994          dev->board_name = dev->board_ptr ? *(const char **)dev->board_ptr
   995                                           : dev->driver->driver_name;
   996          ret = driv->attach(dev, it);
                      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
   997          if (ret >= 0)
   998                  ret = comedi_device_postconfig(dev);
   999          if (ret < 0) {
  1000                  comedi_device_detach(dev);
                        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

  1001                  module_put(driv->module);
  1002          }
  1003          /* On success, the driver module count has been incremented. */

regards,
dan carpenter


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* Re: [PATCH] staging: comedi: drivers: prevent memory leak
  2019-09-17  6:33 ` Dan Carpenter
@ 2019-09-17 10:13   ` Ian Abbott
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Ian Abbott @ 2019-09-17 10:13 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Dan Carpenter, Navid Emamdoost
  Cc: devel, Greg Kroah-Hartman, kjlu, linux-kernel, emamd001, smccaman

On 17/09/2019 07:33, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 16, 2019 at 09:41:43PM -0500, Navid Emamdoost wrote:
>> In das1800_attach, the buffer allocated via kmalloc_array needs to be
>> released if an error happens.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Navid Emamdoost <navid.emamdoost@gmail.com>
> 
> Commedit calls ->detach() if the ->attach() fails so this patch would
> lead to a double free.  See comedi_device_attach():
> 
> drivers/staging/comedi/drivers.c
>     983          }
>     984          if (!driv->attach) {
>     985                  /* driver does not support manual configuration */
>     986                  dev_warn(dev->class_dev,
>     987                           "driver '%s' does not support attach using comedi_config\n",
>     988                           driv->driver_name);
>     989                  module_put(driv->module);
>     990                  ret = -EIO;
>     991                  goto out;
>     992          }
>     993          dev->driver = driv;
>     994          dev->board_name = dev->board_ptr ? *(const char **)dev->board_ptr
>     995                                           : dev->driver->driver_name;
>     996          ret = driv->attach(dev, it);
>                        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>     997          if (ret >= 0)
>     998                  ret = comedi_device_postconfig(dev);
>     999          if (ret < 0) {
>    1000                  comedi_device_detach(dev);
>                          ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> 
>    1001                  module_put(driv->module);
>    1002          }
>    1003          /* On success, the driver module count has been incremented. */

Yes, everything should be freed properly by comedi_device_detach(). 
 From comedi_device_detach(), some of the stuff is freed by 
dev->driver->detach(), and the remainder is freed by 
comedi_device_detach_cleanup().

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