Re: [PATCH 06/28] staging: most: fix mbo leak

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On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 01:43:30PM +0100, Christian Gromm wrote:
> This patch fixes a potential MBO leak in case function aim_read()
> exits right after the MBO has been fetched from kfifo and before
> it has been saved to the variable stacked_mbo.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Christian Gromm <christian.gromm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/staging/most/aim-cdev/cdev.c |    2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/most/aim-cdev/cdev.c b/drivers/staging/most/aim-cdev/cdev.c
> index 6ee4eb2..86194ce 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/most/aim-cdev/cdev.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/most/aim-cdev/cdev.c
> @@ -237,6 +237,7 @@ aim_read(struct file *filp, char __user *buf, size_t count, loff_t *offset)
>  					      (!channel->dev))))
>  			return -ERESTARTSYS;
>  	}
> +	channel->stacked_mbo = mbo;

You can also come out of the while loop when channel->dev is NULL.

Maybe this should have been:
	if (channel->dev)
		 channel->stacked_mbo = mbo;

regards
sudip
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