[alsa-devel] [PATCH] ASoC: SOF: ipc: Fix memory leak in sof_set_get_large_ctrl_data

[Pierre-Louis Bossart]

On 10/27/19 4:53 PM, Navid Emamdoost wrote:
> In the implementation of sof_set_get_large_ctrl_data() there is a memory
> leak in case an error. Release partdata if sof_get_ctrl_copy_params()
> fails.
> 
> Fixes: 54d198d5019d ("ASoC: SOF: Propagate sof_get_ctrl_copy_params() error properly")
> Signed-off-by: Navid Emamdoost <navid.emamdoost at gmail.com>

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

May I ask which tool you used to find those issues, looks like we have a 
gap here?

> ---
>   sound/soc/sof/ipc.c | 4 +++-
>   1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/sound/soc/sof/ipc.c b/sound/soc/sof/ipc.c
> index b2f359d2f7e5..086eeeab8679 100644
> --- a/sound/soc/sof/ipc.c
> +++ b/sound/soc/sof/ipc.c
> @@ -572,8 +572,10 @@ static int sof_set_get_large_ctrl_data(struct snd_sof_dev *sdev,
>   	else
>   		err = sof_get_ctrl_copy_params(cdata->type, partdata, cdata,
>   					       sparams);
> -	if (err < 0)
> +	if (err < 0) {
> +		kfree(partdata);
>   		return err;
> +	}
>   
>   	msg_bytes = sparams->msg_bytes;
>   	pl_size = sparams->pl_size;
>