Re: [PATCH] ALSA: hda: Fix resource leak issue in snd_hda_codec_build_controls and snd_hda_codec_parse_pcms

[Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>]

On Sun, 03 Sep 2017 18:10:53 +0200,
Wang YanQing wrote:
> 
> On Sun, Sep 03, 2017 at 11:27:31PM +0800, Wang YanQing wrote:
> > When patch_ops.init, patch_ops.build_pcms and patch_ops.build_controls
> > return failure, we need to free resource with patch_ops.free, or we will
> > get resource leak.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Wang YanQing <udknight@gmail.com>
> > ---
> >  sound/pci/hda/hda_codec.c | 7 ++++++-
> >  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/sound/pci/hda/hda_codec.c b/sound/pci/hda/hda_codec.c
> > index df6b57e..4e3e613 100644
> > --- a/sound/pci/hda/hda_codec.c
> > +++ b/sound/pci/hda/hda_codec.c
> > @@ -2973,8 +2973,11 @@ int snd_hda_codec_build_controls(struct hda_codec *codec)
> >  		err = codec->patch_ops.init(codec);
> >  	if (!err && codec->patch_ops.build_controls)
> >  		err = codec->patch_ops.build_controls(codec);
> > -	if (err < 0)
> > +	if (err < 0) {
> > +		if (codec->patch_ops.free)
> > +			codec->patch_ops.free(codec);
> >  		return err;
> > +	}
> >  
> >  	/* we create chmaps here instead of build_pcms */
> >  	err = add_std_chmaps(codec);
> > @@ -3170,6 +3173,8 @@ int snd_hda_codec_parse_pcms(struct hda_codec *codec)
> >  	if (err < 0) {
> >  		codec_err(codec, "cannot build PCMs for #%d (error %d)\n",
> >  			  codec->core.addr, err);
> > +		if (codec->patch_ops.free)
> > +			codec->patch_ops.free(codec);
> >  		return err;
> >  	}
> >  
> > -- 
> > 1.8.5.6.2.g3d8a54e.dirty
> 
> I don't know whether this new patch is ok for you, but I think that
> we could allocate resources in patch_ops.init, patch_ops.build_pcms
> and patch_ops.build_controls separately, so I think it isn't flexible
> and elegant to free all resources in all the error path cases in them
> separately, so maybe it is better to use patch_ops.free as the unique
> point to release all resource.

In that case, it'll be easier to do that in hda_bind.c as your first
patch, but skip the free for patch() call; i.e. something like below.
The point is that the codec probe function does already care about the
free at its error path, while others don't do generically.

Or, for safety, we may put an internal flag to indicate that the codec
free got already called, and check it at before calling
patch_ops.free, too.


thanks,

Takashi

---
diff --git a/sound/pci/hda/hda_bind.c b/sound/pci/hda/hda_bind.c
index 6efadbfb3fe3..d361bb77ca00 100644
--- a/sound/pci/hda/hda_bind.c
+++ b/sound/pci/hda/hda_bind.c
@@ -100,7 +100,7 @@ static int hda_codec_driver_probe(struct device *dev)
 	if (patch) {
 		err = patch(codec);
 		if (err < 0)
-			goto error_module;
+			goto error_module_put;
 	}
 
 	err = snd_hda_codec_build_pcms(codec);
@@ -120,6 +120,9 @@ static int hda_codec_driver_probe(struct device *dev)
 	return 0;
 
  error_module:
+	if (codec->patch_ops.free)
+		codec->patch_ops.free(codec);
+ error_module_put:
 	module_put(owner);
 
  error: