ACK: [FOCAL][CVE-2019-19054][PATCH] media: rc: prevent memory leak in cx23888_ir_probe

Colin Ian King colin.king at canonical.com
Wed Aug 12 18:00:25 UTC 2020


On 12/08/2020 18:51, William Breathitt Gray wrote:
> From: Navid Emamdoost <navid.emamdoost at gmail.com>
> 
> In cx23888_ir_probe if kfifo_alloc fails the allocated memory for state
> should be released.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Navid Emamdoost <navid.emamdoost at gmail.com>
> Signed-off-by: Sean Young <sean at mess.org>
> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung at kernel.org>
> 
> CVE-2019-19054
> 
> (cherry picked from a7b2df76b42bdd026e3106cf2ba97db41345a177)
> Signed-off-by: William Breathitt Gray <william.gray at canonical.com>
> ---
>  drivers/media/pci/cx23885/cx23888-ir.c | 5 ++++-
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/media/pci/cx23885/cx23888-ir.c b/drivers/media/pci/cx23885/cx23888-ir.c
> index e880afe37f15..d59ca3601785 100644
> --- a/drivers/media/pci/cx23885/cx23888-ir.c
> +++ b/drivers/media/pci/cx23885/cx23888-ir.c
> @@ -1167,8 +1167,11 @@ int cx23888_ir_probe(struct cx23885_dev *dev)
>  		return -ENOMEM;
>  
>  	spin_lock_init(&state->rx_kfifo_lock);
> -	if (kfifo_alloc(&state->rx_kfifo, CX23888_IR_RX_KFIFO_SIZE, GFP_KERNEL))
> +	if (kfifo_alloc(&state->rx_kfifo, CX23888_IR_RX_KFIFO_SIZE,
> +			GFP_KERNEL)) {
> +		kfree(state);
>  		return -ENOMEM;
> +	}
>  
>  	state->dev = dev;
>  	sd = &state->sd;
> 

Thanks, looks sane to me

Acked-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king at canonical.com>



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