Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 29 Oct 2010 20:20:43 +0000 | From | "Sally Reich [via ASI support]" <> | Subject | [#3146] Re: ChaosBits.net - [PATCH] AudioScience HPI driver: Unsafe memory management when allocating control cache |
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======================================================== This message and your reply sent to Staff: eblennerhassett@audioscience.com, linux@audioscience.com, sreich@audioscience.com Customers: jj@chaosbits.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, alsa-devel@alsa-project.org, perex@perex.cz, tiwai@suse.de ======================================================== 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: > > 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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