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SubjectRe: [PATCH] ALSA: usb-midi: fix a memory leak bug
On Wed, Aug 7, 2019 at 1:31 AM Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 07 Aug 2019 05:22:09 +0200,
> Wenwen Wang wrote:
> >
> > In __snd_usbmidi_create(), a MIDI streaming interface structure is
> > allocated through kzalloc() and the pointer is saved to 'umidi'. Later on,
> > the endpoint structures are created by invoking
> > snd_usbmidi_create_endpoints_midiman() or snd_usbmidi_create_endpoints(),
> > depending on the type of the audio quirk type. However, if the creation
> > fails, the allocated 'umidi' is not deallocated, leading to a memory leak
> > bug.
> >
> > To fix the above issue, free 'umidi' before returning the error.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Wenwen Wang <wenwen@cs.uga.edu>
>
> It's again a false-positive report. The object is released
> automatically by the destructor of its base snd_rawmidi object.

Thanks for your response! Sorry for the false positives. :(

Wenwen

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