linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Input: evdev - Fix incorrect kfree of err_free

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Date:	Wed, 11 Jun 2014 23:49:02 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
To:	Yongtaek Lee <ytk.lee@...sung.com>
cc:	rydberg@...omail.se, dmitry.torokhov@...il.com,
	daniels@...labora.com, linux-input@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Input: evdev - Fix incorrect kfree of err_free_client
 after vzalloc

On Thu, 12 Jun 2014, Yongtaek Lee wrote:

> This bug was introduced by commit 92eb77d ("Input: evdev - fall back
> to vmalloc for client event buffer").
> 
> vzalloc is used to alloc memory as fallback in case of failure
> of kzalloc. But err_free_client was not considered on below case.
> 1. kzalloc fail
> 2. vzalloc success
> 3. evdev_open_device fail
> 4. kfree
> 
> So that address checking is needed to call correct free function.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Yongtaek Lee <ytk.lee@...sung.com>
> Reviewed-by: Daniel Stone <daniels@...labora.com>

Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
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