linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] ALSA: usb-midi: fix a memory leak bug

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Date:   Wed, 7 Aug 2019 01:37:58 -0400
From:   Wenwen Wang <wenwen@...uga.edu>
To:     Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de>
Cc:     "moderated list:SOUND" <alsa-devel@...a-project.org>,
        Clemens Ladisch <clemens@...isch.de>,
        Jaroslav Kysela <perex@...ex.cz>,
        Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.com>,
        open list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Wenwen Wang <wenwen@...uga.edu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ALSA: usb-midi: fix a memory leak bug

On Wed, Aug 7, 2019 at 1:31 AM Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 07 Aug 2019 05:22:09 +0200,
> Wenwen Wang wrote:
> >
> > In __snd_usbmidi_create(), a MIDI streaming interface structure is
> > allocated through kzalloc() and the pointer is saved to 'umidi'. Later on,
> > the endpoint structures are created by invoking
> > snd_usbmidi_create_endpoints_midiman() or snd_usbmidi_create_endpoints(),
> > depending on the type of the audio quirk type. However, if the creation
> > fails, the allocated 'umidi' is not deallocated, leading to a memory leak
> > bug.
> >
> > To fix the above issue, free 'umidi' before returning the error.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Wenwen Wang <wenwen@...uga.edu>
>
> It's again a false-positive report.  The object is released
> automatically by the destructor of its base snd_rawmidi object.

Thanks for your response! Sorry for the false positives. :(

Wenwen