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

[Navid Emamdoost]

On Sun, Oct 27, 2019 at 9:15 PM Pierre-Louis Bossart
<pierre-louis.bossart at linux.intel.com> wrote:
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> 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?

We are developing a research tool to find such cases. Not sure what
gap you are referring to, but we statically track the allocation and
look for an appropriate release/assignment of the pointer.


>
> > ---
> >   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;
> >



--
Navid.