staging: comedi: fix memory leak for saved channel list
authorIan Abbott <abbotti@mev.co.uk>
Wed, 19 Sep 2012 18:37:39 +0000 (19:37 +0100)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Sun, 7 Oct 2012 15:27:24 +0000 (08:27 -0700)
commit8455d77c2b1a558aacef5c61c2d2b73dc8237c8b
tree838f12d4df51111783d07ba87a1ee5e156e9df6c
parent03acba6021da7f7bde0c0886379873791c6e24bf
staging: comedi: fix memory leak for saved channel list

commit c8cad4c89ee3b15935c532210ae6ebb5c0a2734d upstream.

When `do_cmd_ioctl()` allocates memory for the kernel copy of a channel
list, it frees any previously allocated channel list in
`async->cmd.chanlist` and replaces it with the new one.  However, if the
device is ever removed (or "detached") the cleanup code in
`cleanup_device()` in "drivers.c" does not free this memory so it is
lost.

A sensible place to free the kernel copy of the channel list is in
`do_become_nonbusy()` as at that point the comedi asynchronous command
associated with the channel list is no longer valid.  Free the channel
list in `do_become_nonbusy()` instead of `do_cmd_ioctl()` and clear the
pointer to prevent it being freed more than once.

Note that `cleanup_device()` could be called at an inappropriate time
while the comedi device is open, but that's a separate bug not related
to this this patch.

Signed-off-by: Ian Abbott <abbotti@mev.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/staging/comedi/comedi_fops.c