This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
staging: comedi: avoid memleak for subdevice private
to the 3.12-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
staging-comedi-avoid-memleak-for-subdevice-private.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.12 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 67aa4acbc97f6a55b328e4e2305ef19cbe949d85 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ian Abbott <abbotti@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2013 15:51:58 +0100
Subject: staging: comedi: avoid memleak for subdevice private
From: Ian Abbott <abbotti@xxxxxxxxx>
commit 67aa4acbc97f6a55b328e4e2305ef19cbe949d85 upstream.
`comedi_alloc_spriv()` allocates private storage for a comedi subdevice
and sets the `SRF_FREE_SPRIV` flag in the `runflags` member of the
subdevice to allow the private storage to be automatically freed when
the comedi device is being cleaned up. Unfortunately, the flag gets
clobbered by `do_cmd_ioctl()` which calls
`comedi_set_subdevice_runflags()` with a mask value `~0` and only the
`SRF_USER` and `SRF_RUNNING` flags set, all the other SRF flags being
cleared.
Change the calls to `comedi_set_subdevice_runflags()` that currently use
a mask value of `~0` to use a more relevant mask value. For
`do_cmd_ioctl()`, the relevant SRF flags are `SRF_USER`, `SRF_ERROR` and
`SRF_RUNNING`. (At one time, `SRF_RT` would be included in that set of
flags, but it is no longer used.) For `comedi_alloc_spriv()` replace
the call to `comedi_set_subdevice_runflags()` with a simple
OR-assignment to avoid unnecessary use of a spin-lock.
Signed-off-by: Ian Abbott <abbotti@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/staging/comedi/comedi_fops.c | 5 +++--
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
--- a/drivers/staging/comedi/comedi_fops.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/comedi/comedi_fops.c
@@ -543,7 +543,7 @@ void *comedi_alloc_spriv(struct comedi_s
{
s->private = kzalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL);
if (s->private)
- comedi_set_subdevice_runflags(s, ~0, SRF_FREE_SPRIV);
+ s->runflags |= SRF_FREE_SPRIV;
return s->private;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(comedi_alloc_spriv);
@@ -1485,7 +1485,8 @@ static int do_cmd_ioctl(struct comedi_de
if (async->cmd.flags & TRIG_WAKE_EOS)
async->cb_mask |= COMEDI_CB_EOS;
- comedi_set_subdevice_runflags(s, ~0, SRF_USER | SRF_RUNNING);
+ comedi_set_subdevice_runflags(s, SRF_USER | SRF_ERROR | SRF_RUNNING,
+ SRF_USER | SRF_RUNNING);
/* set s->busy _after_ setting SRF_RUNNING flag to avoid race with
* comedi_read() or comedi_write() */
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from abbotti@xxxxxxxxx are
queue-3.12/staging-comedi-avoid-memleak-for-subdevice-private.patch
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