[alsa-devel] [PATCH] ALSA: usb-audio: Fix memory leak in __snd_usbmidi_create

[Takashi Iwai]

On Mon, 28 Oct 2019 17:25:41 +0100,
Navid Emamdoost wrote:
> 
> Thanks for the explanation,
> 
> On Mon, Oct 28, 2019 at 1:27 AM Takashi Iwai <tiwai at suse.de> wrote:
> >
> > On Sun, 27 Oct 2019 23:10:06 +0100,
> > Navid Emamdoost wrote:
> > >
> > > In the implementation of __snd_usbmidi_create() there is a memory leak
> > > caused by incorrect goto destination. Go to free_midi if
> > > snd_usbmidi_create_endpoints_midiman() or snd_usbmidi_create_endpoints()
> > > fail.
> >
> > No, this will lead to double-free.  After registering the rawmidi
> > interface at snd_usbmidi_create_rawmidi(), the common destructor will
> > be called via rawmidi private_free callback, and this will release the
> > all resources already.
> Now I can see how rawmidi private_free is set up to release the
> resources, but what concerns me is that at the moment of endpoint/port
> creation umidi is not yet added to the midi_list.
> In other words, what I see is that we still have just one local
> pointer to umidi if any of snd_usbmidi_create_endpoint* fail.
> Am I missing something?

The rawmidi object that is created via snd_rawmidi_new() is managed
via snd_device list, and it's traversed at snd_card_disconnect() and
snd_card_free() calls.  It's something like devm-stuff (but
implemented in a different way).  The midi_list is an explicit list
for the USB MIDI driver, and it's an individual one from the device
list.


Takashi

> 
> 
> >
> >
> > thanks,
> >
> > Takashi
> >
> > >
> > > Fixes: 731209cc0417 ("ALSA: usb-midi: Use common error handling code in __snd_usbmidi_create()")
> > > Signed-off-by: Navid Emamdoost <navid.emamdoost at gmail.com>
> > > ---
> > >  sound/usb/midi.c | 2 +-
> > >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/sound/usb/midi.c b/sound/usb/midi.c
> > > index b737f0ec77d0..22db37fbfbbd 100644
> > > --- a/sound/usb/midi.c
> > > +++ b/sound/usb/midi.c
> > > @@ -2476,7 +2476,7 @@ int __snd_usbmidi_create(struct snd_card *card,
> > >       else
> > >               err = snd_usbmidi_create_endpoints(umidi, endpoints);
> > >       if (err < 0)
> > > -             goto exit;
> > > +             goto free_midi;
> > >
> > >       usb_autopm_get_interface_no_resume(umidi->iface);
> > >
> > > --
> > > 2.17.1
> > >
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> 
> -- 
> Navid.
>