This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
staging: comedi: fix memory leak / bad pointer freeing for chanlist
to my staging git tree which can be found at
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/staging.git
in the staging-linus branch.
The patch will show up in the next release of the linux-next tree
(usually sometime within the next 24 hours during the week.)
The patch will hopefully also be merged in Linus's tree for the
next -rc kernel release.
If you have any questions about this process, please let me know.
>From 238b5ad855924919e5b98d0c772d9dc78795639b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ian Abbott <abbotti@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2014 15:10:40 +0100
Subject: staging: comedi: fix memory leak / bad pointer freeing for chanlist
As a follow-up to commit 6cab7a37f5c04 ("staging: comedi: (regression)
channel list must be set for COMEDI_CMD ioctl"), Hartley Sweeten pointed
out another couple of bugs stemming from commit 6cab7a37f5c04 ("staging:
comedi: comedi_fops: introduce __comedi_get_user_chanlist()").
Firstly, `do_cmdtest_ioctl()` never frees the kernel copy of the user
chanlist allocated by `__comedi_get_user_chanlist()`, so that memory is
leaked. Fix it by freeing the allocated kernel memory pointed to by
`cmd.chanlist` before that pointer is overwritten with its original
pointer to user memory before `cmd` is copied back to user-space.
Secondly, if `__comedi_get_user_chanlist()` returns an error,
`cmd->chanlist` is left unchanged and in fact will be a pointer to user
memory. This causes `do_cmd_ioctl()` to `goto cleanup` and call
`do_become_nonbusy()` which would attempt to free the memory pointed to
by the user-space pointer. Fix it by setting `cmd->chanlist` to NULL at
the start of `__comedi_get_user_chanlist()`.
Fixes: c6cd0eefb27b ("staging: comedi: comedi_fops: introduce __comedi_get_user_chanlist()")
Reported-by: H Hartley Sweeten <hsweeten@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> # 3.15.y 3.16.y 3.17.y: 6cab7a37f5c04
Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> # 3.15.y 3.16.y 3.17.y
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/staging/comedi/comedi_fops.c | 3 +++
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/staging/comedi/comedi_fops.c b/drivers/staging/comedi/comedi_fops.c
index f9f61bda92e2..9c32f0276009 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/comedi/comedi_fops.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/comedi/comedi_fops.c
@@ -1462,6 +1462,7 @@ static int __comedi_get_user_chanlist(struct comedi_device *dev,
unsigned int *chanlist;
int ret;
+ cmd->chanlist = NULL;
chanlist = memdup_user(user_chanlist,
cmd->chanlist_len * sizeof(unsigned int));
if (IS_ERR(chanlist))
@@ -1615,6 +1616,8 @@ static int do_cmdtest_ioctl(struct comedi_device *dev,
ret = s->do_cmdtest(dev, s, &cmd);
+ kfree(cmd.chanlist); /* free kernel copy of user chanlist */
+
/* restore chanlist pointer before copying back */
cmd.chanlist = (unsigned int __force *)user_chanlist;
--
2.1.2
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