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From: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
To: Dongliang Mu <mudongliangabcd@gmail.com>
Cc: perex@perex.cz, tiwai@suse.com, dan.carpenter@oracle.com,
	alsa-devel@alsa-project.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	syzbot+08a7d8b51ea048a74ffb@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] ALSA: control led: fix memory leak in snd_ctl_led_register
Date: Wed, 02 Jun 2021 08:59:03 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <s5hh7igycp4.wl-tiwai@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210602034136.2762497-1-mudongliangabcd@gmail.com>

On Wed, 02 Jun 2021 05:41:36 +0200,
Dongliang Mu wrote:
> 
> The snd_ctl_led_sysfs_add and snd_ctl_led_sysfs_remove should contain
> the refcount operations in pair. However, snd_ctl_led_sysfs_remove fails
> to decrease the refcount to zero, which causes device_release never to
> be invoked. This leads to memory leak to some resources, like struct
> device_private. In addition, we also free some other similar memory
> leaks in snd_ctl_led_init/snd_ctl_led_exit.
> 
> Fix this by replacing device_del to device_unregister
> in snd_ctl_led_sysfs_remove/snd_ctl_led_init/snd_ctl_led_exit.
> 
> Note that, when CONFIG_DEBUG_KOBJECT_RELEASE is enabled, put_device will
> call kobject_release and delay the release of kobject, which will cause
> use-after-free when the memory backing the kobject is freed at once.
> 
> Reported-by: syzbot+08a7d8b51ea048a74ffb@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
> Fixes: a135dfb5de1 ("ALSA: led control - add sysfs kcontrol LED marking layer")
> Signed-off-by: Dongliang Mu <mudongliangabcd@gmail.com>

Applied now.  Thanks.


Takashi

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From: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
To: Dongliang Mu <mudongliangabcd@gmail.com>
Cc: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org, tiwai@suse.com,
	syzbot+08a7d8b51ea048a74ffb@syzkaller.appspotmail.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, dan.carpenter@oracle.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] ALSA: control led: fix memory leak in snd_ctl_led_register
Date: Wed, 02 Jun 2021 08:59:03 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <s5hh7igycp4.wl-tiwai@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210602034136.2762497-1-mudongliangabcd@gmail.com>

On Wed, 02 Jun 2021 05:41:36 +0200,
Dongliang Mu wrote:
> 
> The snd_ctl_led_sysfs_add and snd_ctl_led_sysfs_remove should contain
> the refcount operations in pair. However, snd_ctl_led_sysfs_remove fails
> to decrease the refcount to zero, which causes device_release never to
> be invoked. This leads to memory leak to some resources, like struct
> device_private. In addition, we also free some other similar memory
> leaks in snd_ctl_led_init/snd_ctl_led_exit.
> 
> Fix this by replacing device_del to device_unregister
> in snd_ctl_led_sysfs_remove/snd_ctl_led_init/snd_ctl_led_exit.
> 
> Note that, when CONFIG_DEBUG_KOBJECT_RELEASE is enabled, put_device will
> call kobject_release and delay the release of kobject, which will cause
> use-after-free when the memory backing the kobject is freed at once.
> 
> Reported-by: syzbot+08a7d8b51ea048a74ffb@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
> Fixes: a135dfb5de1 ("ALSA: led control - add sysfs kcontrol LED marking layer")
> Signed-off-by: Dongliang Mu <mudongliangabcd@gmail.com>

Applied now.  Thanks.


Takashi

  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-06-02  6:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-06-02  3:41 [PATCH v2] ALSA: control led: fix memory leak in snd_ctl_led_register Dongliang Mu
2021-06-02  6:35 ` Dan Carpenter
2021-06-02  6:35   ` Dan Carpenter
2021-06-02  6:47 ` Jaroslav Kysela
2021-06-02  6:59 ` Takashi Iwai [this message]
2021-06-02  6:59   ` Takashi Iwai

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