[alsa-devel] [PATCH] ALSA: usx2y: fix a memory leak bug

[Wenwen Wang]

On Mon, Apr 29, 2019 at 1:42 AM Takashi Iwai <tiwai at suse.de> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 29 Apr 2019 07:50:11 +0200,
> Wenwen Wang wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, Apr 29, 2019 at 12:36 AM Takashi Iwai <tiwai at suse.de> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Sun, 28 Apr 2019 09:18:40 +0200,
> > > Takashi Iwai wrote:
> > > >
> > > > On Sun, 28 Apr 2019 08:42:32 +0200,
> > > > Wenwen Wang wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > In usX2Y_In04_init(), a new urb is firstly created through usb_alloc_urb()
> > > > > and saved to 'usX2Y->In04urb'. Then, a buffer is allocated through
> > > > > kmalloc() and saved to 'usX2Y->In04Buf'. After the urb is initialized, a
> > > > > sanity check is performed for the endpoint in the urb by invoking
> > > > > usb_urb_ep_type_check(). If the check fails, the error code EINVAL will be
> > > > > returned. In that case, however, the created urb and the allocated buffer
> > > > > are not freed, leading to memory leaks.
> > > > >
> > > > > To fix the above issue, free the urb and the buffer if the check fails.
> > > > >
> > > > > Signed-off-by: Wenwen Wang <wang6495 at umn.edu>
> > > >
> > > > Applied now, thanks.
> > >
> > > ... and looking at the code again, this patch turned out to be wrong.
> > > The in04 urb and transfer buffer are freed at card->private_free
> > > callback (snd_usX2Y_card_private_free()) later, so this patch would
> > > lead to double-free.
> >
> > Thanks for your comment! Does that mean we should remove
> > usb_free_urb() in the if statement of allocating 'usX2Y->In04Buf',
> > because it may also lead to double free?
>
> Yes, that's another superfluous code.

Thanks! I will rework the patch.

Wenwen