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SubjectRe: [PATCH] SOUND: usb/endpoint, fix dangling pointer use
On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 05:03:21PM +0200, Jiri Slaby wrote:
> Stanse found that in snd_usb_parse_audio_endpoints, there is a
> dangling pointer dereference. When snd_usb_parse_audio_format fails,
> fp is freed, and continue invoked. On the next loop, there is
> "fp && fp->altsetting == 1 && fp->channels == 1" test, but fp is set
> from the last iteration (but is bogus) and thus ilegally dereferenced.
>
> Set fp to NULL before "continue".

Oh, absolutely. Thanks.

> Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>

Acked-by: Daniel Mack <daniel@caiaq.de>

I think this should go thru the ALSA tree.


Daniel


> Cc: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de>
> Cc: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
> ---
> sound/usb/endpoint.c | 1 +
> 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/sound/usb/endpoint.c b/sound/usb/endpoint.c
> index 9593b91..6f6596c 100644
> --- a/sound/usb/endpoint.c
> +++ b/sound/usb/endpoint.c
> @@ -427,6 +427,7 @@ int snd_usb_parse_audio_endpoints(struct snd_usb_audio *chip, int iface_no)
> if (snd_usb_parse_audio_format(chip, fp, format, fmt, stream, alts) < 0) {
> kfree(fp->rate_table);
> kfree(fp);
> + fp = NULL;
> continue;
> }
>
> --
> 1.7.1
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