Thread (4 messages) 4 messages, 4 authors, 2016-03-07

[PATCH][V3] mt7601u: do not free dma_buf when ivp allocation fails

From: Julian Calaby <hidden>
Date: 2016-02-25 23:31:29
Also in: linux-mediatek, linux-wireless, lkml, netdev

Hi,

On Fri, Feb 26, 2016 at 10:24 AM, Colin King [off-list ref] wrote:
From: Colin Ian King <redacted>

If the allocation of ivp fails the error handling attempts to
free an uninitialized dma_buf; this data structure just contains
garbage on the stack, so the freeing will cause issues when the
urb, buf and dma fields are free'd. Fix this by not free'ing the
dma_buf if the ivp allocation fails.

Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <redacted>
Looks right to me.

Reviewed-by: Julian Calaby <redacted>
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
---
 drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt7601u/mcu.c | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt7601u/mcu.c b/drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt7601u/mcu.c
index fbb1986..91c4b34 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt7601u/mcu.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt7601u/mcu.c
@@ -362,7 +362,9 @@ mt7601u_upload_firmware(struct mt7601u_dev *dev, const struct mt76_fw *fw)
        int i, ret;

        ivb = kmemdup(fw->ivb, sizeof(fw->ivb), GFP_KERNEL);
-       if (!ivb || mt7601u_usb_alloc_buf(dev, MCU_FW_URB_SIZE, &dma_buf)) {
+       if (!ivb)
+               return -ENOMEM;
+       if (mt7601u_usb_alloc_buf(dev, MCU_FW_URB_SIZE, &dma_buf)) {
                ret = -ENOMEM;
                goto error;
        }
--
2.7.0

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