Messages in this thread | | | From | "Rémi Denis-Courmont" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] cdc-phonet: Don't leak in usbpn_open | Date | Wed, 8 Aug 2012 10:12:06 +0300 |
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Le mercredi 8 août 2012 00:56:26 Jesper Juhl, vous avez écrit : > We allocate memory for 'req' with usb_alloc_urb() and then test > 'if (!req || rx_submit(pnd, req, GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_COLD))'. > If we enter that branch due to '!req' then there is no problem. But if > we enter the branch due to 'req' being != 0 and the 'rx_submit()' call > being false, then we'll leak the memory we allocated. > Deal with the leak by always calling 'usb_free_urb(req)' when entering > the branch. If 'req' happens to be 0 then the call is harmless, if it > is not 0 then we free the memory we allocated but don't need. > > Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jj@chaosbits.net>
Acked-by: Rémi Denis-Courmont <remi@remlab.net>
> --- > drivers/net/usb/cdc-phonet.c | 1 + > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) > > Only compile tested due to lack of hardware.
Hardware won't help you much with testing the error case anyway.
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