Re: [PATCH] staging: ft1000: fix memory leak on error path inft1000_probe()

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Tue Jun 11 2013 - 02:36:31 EST


On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 10:40:19PM +0200, Belisko Marek wrote:
> Hi Alexey,
>
> On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 9:29 PM, Alexey Khoroshilov
> <khoroshilov@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > ft1000dev->tx_urb and ft1000dev->rx_urb are not deallocated
> > if something goes wrong in ft1000_probe(). Also there is no
> > check for success of urb allocation. The patch fixes the both issues.
> >
> > By the way, there is no sense in GFP_ATOMIC for urb allocation here,
> > so it is changed to GFP_KERNEL.
> >
> > Found by Linux Driver Verification project (linuxtesting.org).
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Alexey Khoroshilov <khoroshilov@xxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > drivers/staging/ft1000/ft1000-usb/ft1000_usb.c | 10 ++++++++--
> > 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/staging/ft1000/ft1000-usb/ft1000_usb.c b/drivers/staging/ft1000/ft1000-usb/ft1000_usb.c
> > index 614db55..29a7cd2 100644
> > --- a/drivers/staging/ft1000/ft1000-usb/ft1000_usb.c
> > +++ b/drivers/staging/ft1000/ft1000-usb/ft1000_usb.c
> > @@ -79,8 +79,12 @@ static int ft1000_probe(struct usb_interface *interface,
> > ft1000dev->dev = dev;
> > ft1000dev->status = 0;
> > ft1000dev->net = NULL;
> > - ft1000dev->tx_urb = usb_alloc_urb(0, GFP_ATOMIC);
> > - ft1000dev->rx_urb = usb_alloc_urb(0, GFP_ATOMIC);
> > + ft1000dev->tx_urb = usb_alloc_urb(0, GFP_KERNEL);
> Can we check return value for tx here? If allocation fails it makes no sense to
> try allocate also rx. Otherwise looks good. Thanks.
> > + ft1000dev->rx_urb = usb_alloc_urb(0, GFP_KERNEL);
> Same for rx here.
> > + if (!ft1000dev->tx_urb || !ft1000dev->rx_urb) {

Both of these allocations are checked here, so it's fine, no need to
change anything.

greg k-h
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