On 08/12/16 11:34, SF Markus Elfring wrote:
From: Markus Elfring <elfr...@users.sourceforge.net>
Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2016 10:01:54 +0100

The functions "kcalloc" and "kzalloc" were called in four cases by the
function "usbdux_alloc_usb_buffers" without checking immediately
if they succeded.
This issue was detected by using the Coccinelle software.

Allocated memory was also not released if one of these function
calls failed.

* Split a condition check for memory allocation failures.

* Add more exception handling.

Fixes: ef1e3c4a3b383c6da3979670fcb5c6e9c7de4741 ("staging: comedi: usbdux: tidy up 
usbdux_alloc_usb_buffers()")

Signed-off-by: Markus Elfring <elfr...@users.sourceforge.net>
---
 drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/usbdux.c | 53 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------
 1 file changed, 43 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/usbdux.c 
b/drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/usbdux.c
index f4f05d29d30d..d7d683bd669c 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/usbdux.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/usbdux.c
@@ -1449,24 +1449,35 @@ static int usbdux_alloc_usb_buffers(struct 
comedi_device *dev)
        struct usb_device *usb = comedi_to_usb_dev(dev);
        struct usbdux_private *devpriv = dev->private;
        struct urb *urb;
-       int i;
+       int i, x;

        devpriv->dux_commands = kzalloc(SIZEOFDUXBUFFER, GFP_KERNEL);
+       if (!devpriv->dux_commands)
+               return -ENOMEM;
+
        devpriv->in_buf = kzalloc(SIZEINBUF, GFP_KERNEL);
+       if (!devpriv->in_buf)
+               goto free_commands;
+
        devpriv->insn_buf = kzalloc(SIZEINSNBUF, GFP_KERNEL);
+       if (!devpriv->insn_buf)
+               goto free_in_buf;
+
        devpriv->ai_urbs = kcalloc(devpriv->n_ai_urbs, sizeof(void *),
                                   GFP_KERNEL);
+       if (!devpriv->ai_urbs)
+               goto free_insn_buf;
+
        devpriv->ao_urbs = kcalloc(devpriv->n_ao_urbs, sizeof(void *),
                                   GFP_KERNEL);
-       if (!devpriv->dux_commands || !devpriv->in_buf || !devpriv->insn_buf ||
-           !devpriv->ai_urbs || !devpriv->ao_urbs)
-               return -ENOMEM;
+       if (!devpriv->ao_urbs)
+               goto free_ai_urbs;

        for (i = 0; i < devpriv->n_ai_urbs; i++) {
                /* one frame: 1ms */
                urb = usb_alloc_urb(1, GFP_KERNEL);
                if (!urb)
-                       return -ENOMEM;
+                       goto free_n_ai_urbs;
                devpriv->ai_urbs[i] = urb;

                urb->dev = usb;
@@ -1475,7 +1486,7 @@ static int usbdux_alloc_usb_buffers(struct comedi_device 
*dev)
                urb->transfer_flags = URB_ISO_ASAP;
                urb->transfer_buffer = kzalloc(SIZEINBUF, GFP_KERNEL);
                if (!urb->transfer_buffer)
-                       return -ENOMEM;
+                       goto free_n_ai_urbs;

                urb->complete = usbduxsub_ai_isoc_irq;
                urb->number_of_packets = 1;
@@ -1488,7 +1499,7 @@ static int usbdux_alloc_usb_buffers(struct comedi_device 
*dev)
                /* one frame: 1ms */
                urb = usb_alloc_urb(1, GFP_KERNEL);
                if (!urb)
-                       return -ENOMEM;
+                       goto free_n_ao_urbs;
                devpriv->ao_urbs[i] = urb;

                urb->dev = usb;
@@ -1497,7 +1508,7 @@ static int usbdux_alloc_usb_buffers(struct comedi_device 
*dev)
                urb->transfer_flags = URB_ISO_ASAP;
                urb->transfer_buffer = kzalloc(SIZEOUTBUF, GFP_KERNEL);
                if (!urb->transfer_buffer)
-                       return -ENOMEM;
+                       goto free_n_ao_urbs;

                urb->complete = usbduxsub_ao_isoc_irq;
                urb->number_of_packets = 1;
@@ -1514,17 +1525,39 @@ static int usbdux_alloc_usb_buffers(struct 
comedi_device *dev)
        if (devpriv->pwm_buf_sz) {
                urb = usb_alloc_urb(0, GFP_KERNEL);
                if (!urb)
-                       return -ENOMEM;
+                       goto free_n_ao_urbs;
                devpriv->pwm_urb = urb;

                /* max bulk ep size in high speed */
                urb->transfer_buffer = kzalloc(devpriv->pwm_buf_sz,
                                               GFP_KERNEL);
                if (!urb->transfer_buffer)
-                       return -ENOMEM;
+                       goto free_pwm_urb;
        }

        return 0;
+free_pwm_urb:
+       usb_free_urb(urb);
+free_n_ao_urbs:
+       for (x = 0; x < i; ++x) {
+               kfree(devpriv->ao_urbs[x]->transfer_buffer);
+               usb_free_urb(devpriv->ao_urbs[x]);
+       }
+free_n_ai_urbs:
+       for (x = 0; x < i; ++x) {
+               kfree(devpriv->ai_urbs[x]->transfer_buffer);
+               usb_free_urb(devpriv->ai_urbs[x]);
+       }
+       kfree(devpriv->ao_urbs);
+free_ai_urbs:
+       kfree(devpriv->ai_urbs);
+free_insn_buf:
+       kfree(devpriv->insn_buf);
+free_in_buf:
+       kfree(devpriv->in_buf);
+free_commands:
+       kfree(devpriv->dux_commands);
+       return -ENOMEM;
 }

 static void usbdux_free_usb_buffers(struct comedi_device *dev)


Actually, the original code worked fine, and these changes will result in an Oops if the allocations fail. I'll explain why, since it isn't obvious without some knowledge of the clean-up strategy used by comedi drivers:

1. usbdux_alloc_usb_buffers() is called from usbdux_auto_attach().
2. usbdux_auto_attach() will return an error if usbdux_alloc_usb_buffers() fails. 3. If usbdux_auto_attach() returns an error to the core comedi module, the core comedi module will call usbdux_detach().
4. usbdux_detach() calls usbdux_free_usb_buffers().
5. usbdux_free_usb_buffers() frees any of the buffers that were successfully allocated by usbdux_alloc_usb_buffers().

The net result is that devpriv->dux_commands and the others will be passed to kfree() twice, leading to the oops. That could be prevented by settting devpriv->dux_commands and the others to NULL in the error handling of usbdux_alloc_usb_buffers(), but it really isn't necessary as the existing code works, and all the other comedi drivers follow the same strategy of leaving clean-up to their comedi 'detach' handler.

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