[#3146] Re: ChaosBits.net - [PATCH] AudioScience HPI driver: Unsafe memory management when allocating control cache

[Sally Reich [via ASI support]]

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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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