Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 29 Apr 2019 07:36:29 +0200 | From | Takashi Iwai <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] ALSA: usx2y: fix a memory leak bug |
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On Sun, 28 Apr 2019 09:18:40 +0200, Takashi Iwai wrote: > > On Sun, 28 Apr 2019 08:42:32 +0200, > Wenwen Wang wrote: > > > > In usX2Y_In04_init(), a new urb is firstly created through usb_alloc_urb() > > and saved to 'usX2Y->In04urb'. Then, a buffer is allocated through > > kmalloc() and saved to 'usX2Y->In04Buf'. After the urb is initialized, a > > sanity check is performed for the endpoint in the urb by invoking > > usb_urb_ep_type_check(). If the check fails, the error code EINVAL will be > > returned. In that case, however, the created urb and the allocated buffer > > are not freed, leading to memory leaks. > > > > To fix the above issue, free the urb and the buffer if the check fails. > > > > Signed-off-by: Wenwen Wang <wang6495@umn.edu> > > Applied now, thanks.
... and looking at the code again, this patch turned out to be wrong. The in04 urb and transfer buffer are freed at card->private_free callback (snd_usX2Y_card_private_free()) later, so this patch would lead to double-free.
I dropped the patch now.
thanks,
Takashi
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