Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 15 Oct 2006 21:39:21 +0400 | From | Manu Abraham <> | Subject | Re: [v4l-dvb-maintainer] [PATCH] V4L/DVB: potential leak in dvb-bt8xx |
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Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: > Em Dom, 2006-10-15 às 20:35 +0400, Manu Abraham escreveu: >> Florin Malita wrote: >>> Trent Piepho wrote: >>>> I believe that 'state' will be kfree'd by the dst_attach() function if there >>>> is a failure. Not what you would expect, to have it allocated in the bt8xx >>>> driver (why do is there??) and freed on error in a different function. >>>> >>> Hm, you're right - it is kfreed in dst_attach(). But we're still missing >>> the kmalloc result check... >>> >> This patch was applied a few days back > > Yes. > > It is at: > http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/mchehab/v4l-dvb.git;a=commit;h=626ae83bb24927ca015503448f0199842ae2e8da
Ok.
> > I've already asked Linus to pull it, together with other 17 fixes, to > Mainstream. >> Manu > Cheers, > Mauro.
Thanks, Manu
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