[alsa-devel] [PATCH] ASoC: dapm: Potential small memory leak in dapm_cnew_widget()

[Pierre-Louis Bossart]

On 2/19/19 6:04 AM, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> We should free "w" on the error path.
>
> Fixes: 199ed3e81c49 ("ASoC: dapm: fix use-after-free issue with dailink sname")
> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter at oracle.com>

Good catch, thanks.

Reviewed-by: Pierre-Louis Bossart <pierre-louis.bossart at linux.intel.com>


> ---
>   sound/soc/soc-dapm.c | 4 +++-
>   1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/sound/soc/soc-dapm.c b/sound/soc/soc-dapm.c
> index dea6fc2353e4..1ec06ef6d161 100644
> --- a/sound/soc/soc-dapm.c
> +++ b/sound/soc/soc-dapm.c
> @@ -332,8 +332,10 @@ static inline struct snd_soc_dapm_widget *dapm_cnew_widget(
>   	 */
>   	if (_widget->sname) {
>   		w->sname = kstrdup_const(_widget->sname, GFP_KERNEL);
> -		if (!w->sname)
> +		if (!w->sname) {
> +			kfree(w);
>   			return NULL;
> +		}
>   	}
>   	return w;
>   }