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Commit 238b5ad8 authored by Ian Abbott's avatar Ian Abbott Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
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staging: comedi: fix memory leak / bad pointer freeing for chanlist

As a follow-up to commit 6cab7a37 ("staging: comedi: (regression)
channel list must be set for COMEDI_CMD ioctl"), Hartley Sweeten pointed
out another couple of bugs stemming from commit 6cab7a37 ("staging:
comedi: comedi_fops: introduce __comedi_get_user_chanlist()").

Firstly, `do_cmdtest_ioctl()` never frees the kernel copy of the user
chanlist allocated by `__comedi_get_user_chanlist()`, so that memory is
leaked.  Fix it by freeing the allocated kernel memory pointed to by
`cmd.chanlist` before that pointer is overwritten with its original
pointer to user memory before `cmd` is copied back to user-space.

Secondly, if `__comedi_get_user_chanlist()` returns an error,
`cmd->chanlist` is left unchanged and in fact will be a pointer to user
memory.  This causes `do_cmd_ioctl()` to `goto cleanup` and call
`do_become_nonbusy()` which would attempt to free the memory pointed to
by the user-space pointer.  Fix it by setting `cmd->chanlist` to NULL at
the start of `__comedi_get_user_chanlist()`.

Fixes: c6cd0eef

 ("staging: comedi: comedi_fops: introduce __comedi_get_user_chanlist()")
Reported-by: default avatarH Hartley Sweeten <hsweeten@visionengravers.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 3.15.y 3.16.y 3.17.y: 6cab7a37


Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 3.15.y 3.16.y 3.17.y

Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
parent 0ea6fa03
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