linux-kernel - Re: [v4l-dvb-maintainer] [PATCH] V4L/DVB: potential leak in dvb-bt8xx

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Date:	Sun, 15 Oct 2006 12:02:38 -0400
From:	Florin Malita <fmalita@...il.com>
To:	Trent Piepho <xyzzy@...akeasy.org>
CC:	Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...radead.org>,
	v4l-dvb maintainer list <v4l-dvb-maintainer@...uxtv.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [v4l-dvb-maintainer] [PATCH] V4L/DVB: potential leak in dvb-bt8xx

Trent Piepho wrote:
> I believe that 'state' will be kfree'd by the dst_attach() function if there
> is a failure.  Not what you would expect, to have it allocated in the bt8xx
> driver (why do is there??) and freed on error in a different function.
>   

Hm, you're right - it is kfreed in dst_attach(). But we're still missing
the kmalloc result check...

Signed-off-by: Florin Malita <fmalita@...il.com>
---

 dvb-bt8xx.c |    3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/media/dvb/bt8xx/dvb-bt8xx.c b/drivers/media/dvb/bt8xx/dvb-bt8xx.c
index fb6c4cc..d22ba4e 100644
--- a/drivers/media/dvb/bt8xx/dvb-bt8xx.c
+++ b/drivers/media/dvb/bt8xx/dvb-bt8xx.c
@@ -665,6 +665,9 @@ static void frontend_init(struct dvb_bt8
 	case BTTV_BOARD_TWINHAN_DST:
 		/*	DST is not a frontend driver !!!		*/
 		state = (struct dst_state *) kmalloc(sizeof (struct dst_state), GFP_KERNEL);
+		if (!state)
+			break;
+
 		/*	Setup the Card					*/
 		state->config = &dst_config;
 		state->i2c = card->i2c_adapter;


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