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

[Manu Abraham <abraham.manu@gmail.com>]

Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
> 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

Ok.

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


Thanks,
Manu



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