Re: [PATCH] HID: hidraw: fix a problem of memory leak in hidraw_release()

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On 2024/1/25 15:11, Dan Carpenter wrote:
On Thu, Jan 25, 2024 at 02:32:26PM +0800, Su Hui wrote:
'struct hidraw_list' is a circular queue whose head can be smaller than
tail. Using 'list->tail != list->head' to release all memory that should
be released.

Fixes: a5623a203cff ("HID: hidraw: fix memory leak in hidraw_release()")
Signed-off-by: Su Hui <suhui@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
This is very clever.  How did you find that?  Was it through static
analysis or just review?  Perhaps using syzkaller?
Hi,

I just met this bug on a real machine and found this problem by reviewing the code.


Reviewed-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>

I imagine we could write a checker heuristic to identify ->tail and
->head struct members and then complain if they were ever used in a <
or > comparison.

I can't agree any more, great idea!

Su Hui





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