On Wed, May 6, 2015 at 6:48 PM, Alexey Khoroshilov
<khoroshi...@ispras.ru> wrote:
> If prox_parse_report() fails, memory allocated for channels is not
> deallocated, since it is still in local variable channels
> while kfree() is called with indio_dev->channels.
>
> Found by Linux Driver Verification project (linuxtesting.org).
>
> Signed-off-by: Alexey Khoroshilov <khoroshi...@ispras.ru>
> ---
> drivers/iio/light/hid-sensor-prox.c | 3 ++-
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/iio/light/hid-sensor-prox.c
> b/drivers/iio/light/hid-sensor-prox.c
> index 91ecc46ffeaa..d0d188108a11 100644
> --- a/drivers/iio/light/hid-sensor-prox.c
> +++ b/drivers/iio/light/hid-sensor-prox.c
> @@ -281,8 +281,9 @@ static int hid_prox_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
> ret = prox_parse_report(pdev, hsdev, channels,
> HID_USAGE_SENSOR_PROX, prox_state);
> if (ret) {
> + kfree(channels);
> dev_err(&pdev->dev, "failed to setup attributes\n");
> - goto error_free_dev_mem;
> + return ret;
Then the other calls to error_free_dev_mem will also miss to call
'kfree(channels)'.
What about this fix instead?
--- a/drivers/iio/light/hid-sensor-prox.c
+++ b/drivers/iio/light/hid-sensor-prox.c
@@ -332,7 +332,7 @@ error_remove_trigger:
error_unreg_buffer_funcs:
iio_triggered_buffer_cleanup(indio_dev);
error_free_dev_mem:
- kfree(indio_dev->channels);
+ kfree(channels);
return ret;
}
Regards,
Fabio Estevam
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