Re: fix usbmixer double kfree.

From: Takashi Iwai
Date: Mon Mar 06 2006 - 08:40:41 EST


At Mon, 6 Mar 2006 03:49:51 -0500,
Dave Jones wrote:
>
> snd_ctl_add() kfree's the kcontrol already if we fail there,
> so this driver is currently doing a double kfree.
>
> Coverity bug #959
>
> Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> --- linux-2.6/sound/usb/usbmixer.c~ 2006-03-06 03:40:20.000000000 -0500
> +++ linux-2.6/sound/usb/usbmixer.c 2006-03-06 03:45:03.000000000 -0500
> @@ -434,7 +434,6 @@ static int add_control_to_empty(struct m
> kctl->id.index++;
> if ((err = snd_ctl_add(state->chip->card, kctl)) < 0) {
> snd_printd(KERN_ERR "cannot add control (err = %d)\n", err);
> - snd_ctl_free_one(kctl);
> return err;
> }
> cval->elem_id = &kctl->id;
>


Thanks, applied to ALSA tree now, too.

Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx>


Takashi
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