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From: Phil Elwell <phil@raspberrypi.org>
To: Eric Anholt <eric@anholt.net>,
	Stefan Wahren <stefan.wahren@i2se.com>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>,
	Aishwarya Pant <aishpant@gmail.com>,
	Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>,
	linux-rpi-kernel@lists.infradead.org, devel@driverdev.osuosl.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Phil Elwell <phil@raspberrypi.org>
Subject: [PATCH] staging: bcm2835-audio: Fix memory corruption
Date: Tue,  8 Aug 2017 13:05:02 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1502193902-87160-1-git-send-email-phil@raspberrypi.org> (raw)

I'm all for fixing memory leaks, but freeing a block while it is still
being used is a recipe for hard-to-debug kernel exceptions.

1) There is already a vchi method for freeing the instance, so use it.
2) Only call it on error, and then only before initted is false.

Signed-off-by: Phil Elwell <phil@raspberrypi.org>
Fixes: 0adbfd4694c2 ("staging: bcm2835-audio: fix memory leak in bcm2835_audio_open_connection()")
---
 drivers/staging/vc04_services/bcm2835-audio/bcm2835-vchiq.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/vc04_services/bcm2835-audio/bcm2835-vchiq.c b/drivers/staging/vc04_services/bcm2835-audio/bcm2835-vchiq.c
index 5f3d8f2..89f96f3 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/vc04_services/bcm2835-audio/bcm2835-vchiq.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/vc04_services/bcm2835-audio/bcm2835-vchiq.c
@@ -409,6 +409,7 @@ static int bcm2835_audio_open_connection(struct bcm2835_alsa_stream *alsa_stream
 			LOG_ERR("%s: failed to connect VCHI instance (ret=%d)\n",
 				__func__, ret);
 
+			vchi_disconnect(vchi_instance);
 			ret = -EIO;
 			goto err_free_mem;
 		}
@@ -431,7 +432,6 @@ static int bcm2835_audio_open_connection(struct bcm2835_alsa_stream *alsa_stream
 	LOG_DBG(" success !\n");
 	ret = 0;
 err_free_mem:
-	kfree(vchi_instance);
 
 	return ret;
 }
-- 
1.9.1

             reply	other threads:[~2017-08-08 12:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-08-08 12:05 Phil Elwell [this message]
2017-08-10 10:21 ` Dan Carpenter
2017-08-10 10:52   ` Phil Elwell
2017-08-10 11:05     ` Dan Carpenter
2017-08-10 11:24     ` Dan Carpenter
2017-08-10 11:33       ` Dan Carpenter
2017-08-10 13:25       ` Phil Elwell
2017-08-10 14:07         ` Dan Carpenter
2017-08-11  9:57 Phil Elwell

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