[alsa-devel] [PATCH] Sound: AudioScience HPI: Don't leak firmware if mem alloc fails

Takashi Iwai tiwai at suse.de
Mon Aug 1 11:04:05 CEST 2011


At Sun, 31 Jul 2011 23:16:43 +0200 (CEST),
Jesper Juhl wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 29 Jul 2011, Jesper Juhl wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, 29 Jul 2011, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> > 
> > > At Thu, 28 Jul 2011 21:48:27 +0200 (CEST),
> > > Jesper Juhl wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > We leak the memory allocated to 'firmware' when we fail to
> > > > release_firmware() after a kmalloc() failure in hpi_dsp_code_open().
> > > > This patch should take care of the leak.
> > > > 
> > > > Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jj at chaosbits.net>
> > > > ---
> > > >  sound/pci/asihpi/hpidspcd.c |    4 +++-
> > > >  1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> > > > 
> > > > 	Build tested only.
> > > > 
> > > > diff --git a/sound/pci/asihpi/hpidspcd.c b/sound/pci/asihpi/hpidspcd.c
> > > > index 3a7afa3..8d261ef 100644
> > > > --- a/sound/pci/asihpi/hpidspcd.c
> > > > +++ b/sound/pci/asihpi/hpidspcd.c
> > > > @@ -85,8 +85,10 @@ short hpi_dsp_code_open(u32 adapter, void *os_data, struct dsp_code *dsp_code,
> > > >  
> > > >  	HPI_DEBUG_LOG(DEBUG, "dsp code %s opened\n", fw_name);
> > > >  	dsp_code->pvt = kmalloc(sizeof(*dsp_code->pvt), GFP_KERNEL);
> > > > -	if (!dsp_code->pvt)
> > > > +	if (!dsp_code->pvt) {
> > > > +		release_firmware(firmware);
> > > >  		return HPI_ERROR_MEMORY_ALLOC;
> > > > +	}
> > > 
> > > IMO, it's better to use the same error handling like others, i.e.
> > > "goto error2".  But you want to pass a different error code, so we'd
> > > need to introduce an error code variable there...
> > > 
> > Thank you for the feedback. I'll cook up a better patch tonight.
> > 
> > 
> 
> Sorry about the delay - had non-computer things to attend to.
> 
> I hope this is more to your liking :-)
> 
> 
> From: Jesper Juhl <jj at chaosbits.net>
> 
> We leak the memory allocated to 'firmware' when we fail to
> release_firmware() after a kmalloc() failure in hpi_dsp_code_open().
> This patch should take care of the leak.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jj at chaosbits.net>

Applied now.  Thanks.


Takashi

> ---
>  sound/pci/asihpi/hpidspcd.c |    9 ++++++---
>  1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/sound/pci/asihpi/hpidspcd.c b/sound/pci/asihpi/hpidspcd.c
> index 3a7afa3..71d32c8 100644
> --- a/sound/pci/asihpi/hpidspcd.c
> +++ b/sound/pci/asihpi/hpidspcd.c
> @@ -43,6 +43,7 @@ short hpi_dsp_code_open(u32 adapter, void *os_data, struct dsp_code *dsp_code,
>  	struct pci_dev *dev = os_data;
>  	struct code_header header;
>  	char fw_name[20];
> +	short err_ret = HPI_ERROR_DSP_FILE_NOT_FOUND;
>  	int err;
>  
>  	sprintf(fw_name, "asihpi/dsp%04x.bin", adapter);
> @@ -85,8 +86,10 @@ short hpi_dsp_code_open(u32 adapter, void *os_data, struct dsp_code *dsp_code,
>  
>  	HPI_DEBUG_LOG(DEBUG, "dsp code %s opened\n", fw_name);
>  	dsp_code->pvt = kmalloc(sizeof(*dsp_code->pvt), GFP_KERNEL);
> -	if (!dsp_code->pvt)
> -		return HPI_ERROR_MEMORY_ALLOC;
> +	if (!dsp_code->pvt) {
> +		err_ret = HPI_ERROR_MEMORY_ALLOC;
> +		goto error2;
> +	}
>  
>  	dsp_code->pvt->dev = dev;
>  	dsp_code->pvt->firmware = firmware;
> @@ -99,7 +102,7 @@ error2:
>  	release_firmware(firmware);
>  error1:
>  	dsp_code->block_length = 0;
> -	return HPI_ERROR_DSP_FILE_NOT_FOUND;
> +	return err_ret;
>  }
>  
>  /*-------------------------------------------------------------------*/
> -- 
> 1.7.6
> 
> 
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