linux-kernel - [PATCH 4.9 16/44] ALSA: usb-audio: Fix a memory leak bug

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Message-Id: <20190520115232.820086524@linuxfoundation.org>
Date:   Mon, 20 May 2019 14:14:05 +0200
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        stable@...r.kernel.org, Wenwen Wang <wang6495@....edu>,
        Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de>
Subject: [PATCH 4.9 16/44] ALSA: usb-audio: Fix a memory leak bug

From: Wenwen Wang <wang6495@....edu>

commit cb5173594d50c72b7bfa14113dfc5084b4d2f726 upstream.

In parse_audio_selector_unit(), the string array 'namelist' is allocated
through kmalloc_array(), and each string pointer in this array, i.e.,
'namelist[]', is allocated through kmalloc() in the following for loop.
Then, a control instance 'kctl' is created by invoking snd_ctl_new1(). If
an error occurs during the creation process, the string array 'namelist',
including all string pointers in the array 'namelist[]', should be freed,
before the error code ENOMEM is returned. However, the current code does
not free 'namelist[]', resulting in memory leaks.

To fix the above issue, free all string pointers 'namelist[]' in a loop.

Signed-off-by: Wenwen Wang <wang6495@....edu>
Cc: <stable@...r.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>

---
 sound/usb/mixer.c |    2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

--- a/sound/usb/mixer.c
+++ b/sound/usb/mixer.c
@@ -2178,6 +2178,8 @@ static int parse_audio_selector_unit(str
 	kctl = snd_ctl_new1(&mixer_selectunit_ctl, cval);
 	if (! kctl) {
 		usb_audio_err(state->chip, "cannot malloc kcontrol\n");
+		for (i = 0; i < desc->bNrInPins; i++)
+			kfree(namelist[i]);
 		kfree(namelist);
 		kfree(cval);
 		return -ENOMEM;