Re: [PATCH v2] HID: leave dev_rdesc unmodified and use it for comparisons

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On Tue, 18 Sep 2012, Kevin Daughtridge wrote:

> The dev_rdesc member of the hid_device structure is meant to store the
> original
> report descriptor received from the device, but it is currently passed to any
> report_fixup method before it is copied to the rdesc member. This patch moves
> the kmemdup to before, not after, the report_fixup call, keeping dev_rdesc
> unchanged.
> 
> usbhid's hid_post_reset checks the report descriptor currently returned by the
> device against a descriptor that may have been modified by a driver's
> report_fixup method. That leaves some devices nonfunctional after a resume,
> with
> a "reset_resume error 1" reported. This patch checks the new descriptor
> against
> the unmodified dev_rdesc instead.
> 
> BugLink:http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1049623
> Signed-off-by: Kevin Daughtridge<kevin@xxxxxxxx>

Your patch is whitespace damaged again, please fix your workload Kevin.

> ---
> --- a/drivers/hid/hid-core.c
> +++ b/drivers/hid/hid-core.c
> @@ -775,12 +775,14 @@ int hid_open_report(struct hid_device *d
>  		return -ENODEV;
>  	size = device->dev_rsize;
>  +	start = kmemdup(start, size, GFP_KERNEL);
> +	if (start == NULL)
> +		return -ENOMEM;
> +

How do you avoid memory leak on 'start' here?

-- 
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs
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