Re: [PATCH] nfc: fix memory leak of se_io context in nfc_genl_se_io
From: Krzysztof Kozlowski <hidden>
Date: 2023-02-28 10:14:16
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On 27/02/2023 16:05, Fedor Pchelkin wrote:
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Fixes: 5ce3f32b5264 ("NFC: netlink: SE API implementation") Reported-by: syzbot+df64c0a2e8d68e78a4fa@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Signed-off-by: Fedor Pchelkin <redacted> Signed-off-by: Alexey Khoroshilov <redacted>SoB order is a bit odd. Who is the author?The author is me (Fedor). I thought the authorship is expressed with the first Signed-off-by line, isn't it?
Yes and since you are sending it, then what is Alexey's Sob for? The tags are in order...
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--- drivers/nfc/st-nci/se.c | 6 ++++++ drivers/nfc/st21nfca/se.c | 6 ++++++ net/nfc/netlink.c | 4 ++++ 3 files changed, 16 insertions(+)diff --git a/drivers/nfc/st-nci/se.c b/drivers/nfc/st-nci/se.c index ec87dd21e054..b2f1ced8e6dd 100644 --- a/drivers/nfc/st-nci/se.c +++ b/drivers/nfc/st-nci/se.c@@ -672,6 +672,12 @@ int st_nci_se_io(struct nci_dev *ndev, u32 se_idx, ST_NCI_EVT_TRANSMIT_DATA, apdu, apdu_length)nci_hci_send_event() should also free it in its error paths. nci_data_exchange_complete() as well? Who eventually frees it? These might be separate patches.nci_hci_send_event(), as I can see, should not free the callback context. I should have probably better explained that in the commit info (will include this in the patch v2), but the main thing is: nfc_se_io() is called with se_io_cb callback function as an argument and that callback is the exact place where an allocated se_io_ctx context should be freed. And it is actually freed there unless some error path happens that leads the
Exactly, so why nci_hci_send_event() error path should not free it?
timer which triggers this se_io_cb callback not to be charged at all.
Best regards, Krzysztof