Re: [v4l-dvb-maintainer] [PATCH] V4L/DVB: potential leak in dvb-bt8xx

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Em Dom, 2006-10-15 às 20:35 +0400, Manu Abraham escreveu:
> Florin Malita wrote:
> > Trent Piepho wrote:
> >> I believe that 'state' will be kfree'd by the dst_attach() function if there
> >> is a failure.  Not what you would expect, to have it allocated in the bt8xx
> >> driver (why do is there??) and freed on error in a different function.
> >>   
> > 
> > Hm, you're right - it is kfreed in dst_attach(). But we're still missing
> > the kmalloc result check...
> > 
> 
> This patch was applied a few days back

Yes. 

It is at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/mchehab/v4l-dvb.git;a=commit;h=626ae83bb24927ca015503448f0199842ae2e8da

I've already asked Linus to pull it, together with other 17 fixes, to
Mainstream.
> 
> Manu
Cheers, 
Mauro.

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