From: Luke Nowakowski-Krijger <lnowakow@eng.ucsd.edu>
To: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org,
Hans Verkuil <hverkuil-cisco@xs4all.nl>,
Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>,
syzbot+a4387f5b6b799f6becbf@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5.2 10/20] media: radio-raremono: change devm_k*alloc to k*alloc
Date: Mon, 5 Aug 2019 22:34:26 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190806053426.GA7108@luke-XPS-13> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9403fd1e250bb4dd8e1bcf0536e6d224be7c889c.camel@perches.com>
Hi there,
On Fri, Aug 02, 2019 at 03:04:25AM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Fri, 2019-08-02 at 11:40 +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > From: Luke Nowakowski-Krijger <lnowakow@eng.ucsd.edu>
> >
> > commit c666355e60ddb4748ead3bdd983e3f7f2224aaf0 upstream.
> >
> > Change devm_k*alloc to k*alloc to manually allocate memory
> >
> > The manual allocation and freeing of memory is necessary because when
> > the USB radio is disconnected, the memory associated with devm_k*alloc
> > is freed. Meaning if we still have unresolved references to the radio
> > device, then we get use-after-free errors.
> >
> > This patch fixes this by manually allocating memory, and freeing it in
> > the v4l2.release callback that gets called when the last radio device
> > exits.
>
> This really should be commented in the code
> and not just in the commit changelog as some
> unsuspecting person will likely undo this in
> the future without one.
You reckon I should submit a patch with the necessary parts commented?
Thanks,
- Luke
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-08-06 5:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-08-02 9:39 [PATCH 5.2 00/20] 5.2.6-stable review Greg Kroah-Hartman
2019-08-02 9:39 ` [PATCH 5.2 01/20] vsock: correct removal of socket from the list Greg Kroah-Hartman
2019-08-02 9:39 ` [PATCH 5.2 02/20] ISDN: hfcsusb: checking idx of ep configuration Greg Kroah-Hartman
2019-08-02 9:39 ` [PATCH 5.2 03/20] ALSA: usb-audio: Sanity checks for each pipe and EP types Greg Kroah-Hartman
2019-08-02 13:48 ` Sasha Levin
2019-08-02 15:51 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2019-08-07 2:38 ` Sasha Levin
2019-08-02 9:39 ` [PATCH 5.2 04/20] bpf: fix NULL deref in btf_type_is_resolve_source_only Greg Kroah-Hartman
2019-08-02 9:39 ` [PATCH 5.2 05/20] media: au0828: fix null dereference in error path Greg Kroah-Hartman
2019-08-02 9:40 ` [PATCH 5.2 06/20] ath10k: Change the warning message string Greg Kroah-Hartman
2019-08-02 9:40 ` [PATCH 5.2 07/20] media: cpia2_usb: first wake up, then free in disconnect Greg Kroah-Hartman
2019-08-02 9:40 ` [PATCH 5.2 08/20] media: pvrusb2: use a different format for warnings Greg Kroah-Hartman
2019-08-02 9:40 ` [PATCH 5.2 09/20] NFS: Cleanup if nfs_match_client is interrupted Greg Kroah-Hartman
2019-08-02 9:40 ` [PATCH 5.2 10/20] media: radio-raremono: change devm_k*alloc to k*alloc Greg Kroah-Hartman
2019-08-02 10:04 ` Joe Perches
2019-08-06 5:34 ` Luke Nowakowski-Krijger [this message]
2019-08-02 9:40 ` [PATCH 5.2 11/20] xfrm: policy: fix bydst hlist corruption on hash rebuild Greg Kroah-Hartman
2019-08-02 9:40 ` [PATCH 5.2 12/20] nvme: fix multipath crash when ANA is deactivated Greg Kroah-Hartman
2019-08-02 9:40 ` [PATCH 5.2 13/20] Bluetooth: hci_uart: check for missing tty operations Greg Kroah-Hartman
2019-08-02 9:40 ` [PATCH 5.2 14/20] sched/fair: Dont free p->numa_faults with concurrent readers Greg Kroah-Hartman
2019-08-02 9:40 ` [PATCH 5.2 15/20] sched/fair: Use RCU accessors consistently for ->numa_group Greg Kroah-Hartman
2019-08-02 9:40 ` [PATCH 5.2 16/20] /proc/<pid>/cmdline: remove all the special cases Greg Kroah-Hartman
2019-08-02 9:40 ` [PATCH 5.2 17/20] /proc/<pid>/cmdline: add back the setproctitle() special case Greg Kroah-Hartman
2019-08-02 9:40 ` [PATCH 5.2 18/20] drivers/pps/pps.c: clear offset flags in PPS_SETPARAMS ioctl Greg Kroah-Hartman
2019-08-02 9:40 ` [PATCH 5.2 19/20] Fix allyesconfig output Greg Kroah-Hartman
2019-08-02 9:40 ` [PATCH 5.2 20/20] ceph: hold i_ceph_lock when removing caps for freeing inode Greg Kroah-Hartman
2019-08-02 17:21 ` [PATCH 5.2 00/20] 5.2.6-stable review Thierry Reding
2019-08-03 7:09 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2019-08-05 11:48 ` Thierry Reding
2019-08-09 8:52 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2019-08-09 13:04 ` Thierry Reding
2019-08-09 15:49 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2019-08-12 9:05 ` Thierry Reding
2021-01-04 12:39 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2019-08-02 23:25 ` shuah
2019-08-03 7:08 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2019-08-03 5:50 ` Naresh Kamboju
2019-08-03 7:11 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2019-08-03 16:00 ` Guenter Roeck
2019-08-04 7:15 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
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