2023-01-09 21:18:40

by Luiz Augusto von Dentz

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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Bluetooth: hci_sync: fix memory leak in hci_update_adv_data()

Hi Zhengchao,

On Sun, Jan 8, 2023 at 5:17 PM Zhengchao Shao <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> When hci_cmd_sync_queue() failed in hci_update_adv_data(), inst_ptr is
> not freed, which will cause memory leak. Add release process to error
> path.
>
> Fixes: 651cd3d65b0f ("Bluetooth: convert hci_update_adv_data to hci_sync")
> Signed-off-by: Zhengchao Shao <[email protected]>
> ---
> net/bluetooth/hci_sync.c | 7 ++++++-
> 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/net/bluetooth/hci_sync.c b/net/bluetooth/hci_sync.c
> index 9e2d7e4b850c..1485501bd72f 100644
> --- a/net/bluetooth/hci_sync.c
> +++ b/net/bluetooth/hci_sync.c
> @@ -6197,10 +6197,15 @@ static int _update_adv_data_sync(struct hci_dev *hdev, void *data)
> int hci_update_adv_data(struct hci_dev *hdev, u8 instance)
> {
> u8 *inst_ptr = kmalloc(1, GFP_KERNEL);
> + int ret;
>
> if (!inst_ptr)
> return -ENOMEM;
>
> *inst_ptr = instance;
> - return hci_cmd_sync_queue(hdev, _update_adv_data_sync, inst_ptr, NULL);
> + ret = hci_cmd_sync_queue(hdev, _update_adv_data_sync, inst_ptr, NULL);
> + if (ret)
> + kfree(inst_ptr);
> +
> + return ret;
> }

While this is correct I do wonder why we haven't used ERR_PTR/PTR_ERR
like we did with the likes of abort_conn_sync, that way we don't have
to allocate anything which makes things a lot simpler.

> --
> 2.34.1
>


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Luiz Augusto von Dentz