* [#3146] Re: ChaosBits.net - [PATCH] AudioScience HPI driver: Unsafe memory management when allocating control cache
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@ 2010-10-29 20:20 ` Sally Reich [via ASI support]
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From: Sally Reich [via ASI support] @ 2010-10-29 20:20 UTC (permalink / raw)
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Hello Jesper,
A quick email to let you know that we received your email; our Linux developer should reply in the beginning of next week (I believe he is out of the office on Monday).
Regards,
~Sally
On Fri, 29 Oct 2010, 16:15:24 EDT, Sally Reich wrote:
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> Hi,
>
> I noticed that sound/pci/asihpi/hpicmn.c::hpi_alloc_control_cache() does
> not check the return value from kmalloc(), which may fail.
> If kmalloc() fails we'll dereference a null pointer and things will go bad
> fast.
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