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Date:   Thu, 28 Jan 2021 15:01:40 +0100
From:   Ricardo Ribalda <ribalda@...omium.org>
To:     Colin King <colin.king@...onical.com>
Cc:     Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@...asonboard.com>,
        Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...nel.org>,
        Linux Media Mailing List <linux-media@...r.kernel.org>,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH][V2][next] media: uvcvideo: Fix memory leak when
 gpiod_to_irq fails

Thanks for the fix!

On Thu, Jan 28, 2021 at 2:59 PM Colin King <colin.king@...onical.com> wrote:
>
> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>
>
> Currently when the call to gpiod_to_irq fails the error return
> path does not kfree the recently allocated object 'unit'. Fix this
> swapping the order of the irq call and the allocation of unit.
>
> Thanks to Ricardo Ribalda for suggesting this fix.
>
> Addresses-Coverity: ("Resource leak")
> Fixes: 2886477ff987 ("media: uvcvideo: Implement UVC_EXT_GPIO_UNIT")
> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>

Reviewed-by: Ricardo Ribalda <ribalda@...omium.org>

> ---
>
> V2: swap order of gpiod_to_irq call and allocation of unit to simplify
>     error cleanup.
>
> ---
>  drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvc_driver.c | 8 ++++----
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvc_driver.c b/drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvc_driver.c
> index 1abc122a0977..f62e6cb66daf 100644
> --- a/drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvc_driver.c
> +++ b/drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvc_driver.c
> @@ -1534,10 +1534,6 @@ static int uvc_gpio_parse(struct uvc_device *dev)
>         if (IS_ERR_OR_NULL(gpio_privacy))
>                 return PTR_ERR_OR_ZERO(gpio_privacy);
>
> -       unit = uvc_alloc_entity(UVC_EXT_GPIO_UNIT, UVC_EXT_GPIO_UNIT_ID, 0, 1);
> -       if (!unit)
> -               return -ENOMEM;
> -
>         irq = gpiod_to_irq(gpio_privacy);
>         if (irq < 0) {
>                 if (irq != EPROBE_DEFER)
> @@ -1546,6 +1542,10 @@ static int uvc_gpio_parse(struct uvc_device *dev)
>                 return irq;
>         }
>
> +       unit = uvc_alloc_entity(UVC_EXT_GPIO_UNIT, UVC_EXT_GPIO_UNIT_ID, 0, 1);
> +       if (!unit)
> +               return -ENOMEM;
> +
>         unit->gpio.gpio_privacy = gpio_privacy;
>         unit->gpio.irq = irq;
>         unit->gpio.bControlSize = 1;
> --
> 2.29.2
>


-- 
Ricardo Ribalda