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Re: [RESEND][PATCH 2/4] NFC: st21nfca: Fix memory OOB and leak issues in connectivity events handler

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On 20 April 2018 at 22:15, Mark Greer <mgreer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 20, 2018 at 03:39:46PM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
>> On Wed, 2018-04-18 at 15:35 +0530, Amit Pundir wrote:
>>
>> >             if (skb->data[transaction->aid_len + 2] !=
>> > -               NFC_EVT_TRANSACTION_PARAMS_TAG)
>> > +               NFC_EVT_TRANSACTION_PARAMS_TAG ||
>> > +               skb->len < transaction->aid_len + transaction-
>> > >params_len + 4) {
>>
>> > +                   devm_kfree(dev, transaction);
>>
>> Oh, no.
>>
>> This is not memory leak per se, this is bad choice of devm_ API where it
>> should use plain kmalloc() / kfree().
>
> Also, there is no check to see if the allocation worked at all.

Ack. I'll add that in v2.
Thanks.

Regards,
Amit Pundir

>
> Mark
> --



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