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media: gspca: Fix memory leak in probe

Message ID 20201124160026.GA749809@rowland.harvard.edu
State Superseded
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Series media: gspca: Fix memory leak in probe | expand

Commit Message

Alan Stern Nov. 24, 2020, 4 p.m. UTC
The gspca driver leaks memory when a probe fails.  gspca_dev_probe2()
calls v4l2_device_register(), which takes a reference to the
underlying device node (in this case, a USB interface).  But the
failure pathway neglects to call v4l2_device_disconnect(), the routine
responsible for dropping this reference.  Consequently the memory for
the USB interface and its device never gets released.

This patch adds the missing function call.

Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Reported-and-tested-by: syzbot+44e64397bd81d5e84cba@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
CC: <stable@vger.kernel.org>

---

This doesn't fully fix syzbot's test case, because the test goes on and 
encounters another memory leak in a different driver.


[as1949]


 drivers/media/usb/gspca/gspca.c |    1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

Comments

Hans Verkuil Dec. 2, 2020, 8:58 a.m. UTC | #1
On 24/11/2020 17:00, Alan Stern wrote:
> The gspca driver leaks memory when a probe fails.  gspca_dev_probe2()
> calls v4l2_device_register(), which takes a reference to the
> underlying device node (in this case, a USB interface).  But the
> failure pathway neglects to call v4l2_device_disconnect(), the routine
> responsible for dropping this reference.  Consequently the memory for
> the USB interface and its device never gets released.
> 
> This patch adds the missing function call.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
> Reported-and-tested-by: syzbot+44e64397bd81d5e84cba@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
> CC: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
> 
> ---
> 
> This doesn't fully fix syzbot's test case, because the test goes on and 
> encounters another memory leak in a different driver.
> 
> 
> [as1949]
> 
> 
>  drivers/media/usb/gspca/gspca.c |    1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> 
> Index: usb-devel/drivers/media/usb/gspca/gspca.c
> ===================================================================
> --- usb-devel.orig/drivers/media/usb/gspca/gspca.c
> +++ usb-devel/drivers/media/usb/gspca/gspca.c
> @@ -1575,6 +1575,7 @@ out:
>  		input_unregister_device(gspca_dev->input_dev);
>  #endif
>  	v4l2_ctrl_handler_free(gspca_dev->vdev.ctrl_handler);
> +	v4l2_device_disconnect(&gspca_dev->v4l2_dev);

Close, but no cigar. This should call v4l2_device_unregister(), the
counterpart of video_device_register. This unregister function also
calls v4l2_device_disconnect, but the code makes a lot more sense if
the v4l2_device_register is matched with the v4l2_device_unregister.

Regards,

	Hans

>  	kfree(gspca_dev->usb_buf);
>  	kfree(gspca_dev);
>  	return ret;
>
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Index: usb-devel/drivers/media/usb/gspca/gspca.c
===================================================================
--- usb-devel.orig/drivers/media/usb/gspca/gspca.c
+++ usb-devel/drivers/media/usb/gspca/gspca.c
@@ -1575,6 +1575,7 @@  out:
 		input_unregister_device(gspca_dev->input_dev);
 #endif
 	v4l2_ctrl_handler_free(gspca_dev->vdev.ctrl_handler);
+	v4l2_device_disconnect(&gspca_dev->v4l2_dev);
 	kfree(gspca_dev->usb_buf);
 	kfree(gspca_dev);
 	return ret;