Re: [PATCH v2] iio: light: hid-sensor-prox: Fix memory leak in probe()/remove()

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On Thu, May 7, 2015 at 7:15 PM, Fabio Estevam <festevam@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, May 7, 2015 at 6:51 PM, Srinivas Pandruvada
> <srinivas.pandruvada@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Thu, 2015-05-07 at 11:09 -0300, Fabio Estevam wrote:
>>> 'channels' is allocated via kmemdup, so we need to free it after its usage.
>>>
>>> This way we fix the memory leak in both probe and remove paths.
>>>
>>> Also, as 'indio_dev' is allocated via devm_iio_device_alloc(), so there is
>>> no need to call kfree for it.
>> Where is the kfree for indio_dev..?
>
> It is kfree(indio_dev->channels) actually.
>
>>>
>>> Reported-by: Alexey Khoroshilov <khoroshilov@xxxxxxxxx>
>>> Signed-off-by: Fabio Estevam <fabio.estevam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> ---
>>> Changes since v1:
>>> - Always call kfree(channel) after its usage.
>>>
>>>  drivers/iio/light/hid-sensor-prox.c | 14 ++++++--------
>>>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/drivers/iio/light/hid-sensor-prox.c b/drivers/iio/light/hid-sensor-prox.c
>>> index 91ecc46..00ce0f6 100644
>>> --- a/drivers/iio/light/hid-sensor-prox.c
>>> +++ b/drivers/iio/light/hid-sensor-prox.c
>>> @@ -278,16 +278,17 @@ static int hid_prox_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
>>>               return -ENOMEM;
>>>       }
>>>
>>> +     indio_dev->channels = channels;
>>> +
>>>       ret = prox_parse_report(pdev, hsdev, channels,
>>>                               HID_USAGE_SENSOR_PROX, prox_state);
>>> +     kfree(channels);
>> You are freeing channels so indio_dev->channels will point to junk.
>> This will be passed to iio_device_register..
>
> No, I am freeing channels, not indio_dev->channels.

Ops, I see the issue.

I think it is better if we go with the v1 instead.
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