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authorMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>2010-02-01 10:35:22 -0300
committerMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>2010-02-08 10:45:24 -0200
commitadefdceef4c1cefee2678724cd57824c8ca80091 (patch)
tree6c3f48315f310980287a5acb8c1fd9d796547d10 /drivers
parent6339204ecc2aa2067a99595522de0403f0854bb8 (diff)
V4L/DVB: Fix the risk of an oops at dvb_dmx_release
dvb_dmx_init tries to allocate virtual memory for 2 pointers: filter and feed. If the second vmalloc fails, filter is freed, but the pointer keeps pointing to the old place. Later, when dvb_dmx_release() is called, it will try to free an already freed memory, causing an OOPS. Reviewed-by: Andy Walls <awalls@radix.net> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers')
-rw-r--r--drivers/media/dvb/dvb-core/dvb_demux.c1
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/media/dvb/dvb-core/dvb_demux.c b/drivers/media/dvb/dvb-core/dvb_demux.c
index b78cfb7d189..a78408e76e7 100644
--- a/drivers/media/dvb/dvb-core/dvb_demux.c
+++ b/drivers/media/dvb/dvb-core/dvb_demux.c
@@ -1246,6 +1246,7 @@ int dvb_dmx_init(struct dvb_demux *dvbdemux)
dvbdemux->feed = vmalloc(dvbdemux->feednum * sizeof(struct dvb_demux_feed));
if (!dvbdemux->feed) {
vfree(dvbdemux->filter);
+ dvbdemux->filter = NULL;
return -ENOMEM;
}
for (i = 0; i < dvbdemux->filternum; i++) {