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SubjectRe: [PATCH] sound: fix a memory leak bug
On Thu, 08 Aug 2019 07:15:21 +0200,
Wenwen Wang wrote:
>
> In sound_insert_unit(), the controlling structure 's' is allocated through
> kmalloc(). Then it is added to the sound driver list by invoking
> __sound_insert_unit(). Later on, if __register_chrdev() fails, 's' is
> removed from the list through __sound_remove_unit(). If 'index' is not less
> than 0, -EBUSY is returned to indicate the error. However, 's' is not
> deallocated on this execution path, leading to a memory leak bug.
>
> To fix the above issue, free 's' before -EBUSY is returned.
>
> Signed-off-by: Wenwen Wang <wenwen@cs.uga.edu>

Oh, it's a really old bug. Applied now.

Thanks!


Takashi

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