Re: [PATCH 1/1] v4l: ioctl: Fix memory leak in video_usercopy

From: Sakari Ailus
Date: Sun Dec 20 2020 - 06:54:42 EST


On Sun, Dec 20, 2020 at 12:36:23PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 20, 2020 at 12:06 PM Sakari Ailus
> <sakari.ailus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > When an IOCTL with argument size larger than 128 that also used array
> > arguments were handled, two memory allocations were made but alas, only
> > the latter one of them was released. This happened because there was only
> > a single local variable to hold such a temporary allocation.
> >
> > Fix this by adding separate variables to hold the pointers to the
> > temporary allocations.
> >
> > Reported-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Reported-by: syzbot+1115e79c8df6472c612b@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Fixes: d14e6d76ebf7 ("[media] v4l: Add multi-planar ioctl handling code")
> > Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Signed-off-by: Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>

Thanks!

>
> > out:
> > + kvfree(array_buf);
> > kvfree(mbuf);
>
> I think it would make sense to change mbuf back to kzalloc()/kfree
> after this, since the size of the ioctl argument has an upper bound
> of 2^_IOC_SIZEBITS (16KB), which does not need the vmalloc
> path, unlike the array args.

Good point. I can send a patch for that, too.

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Sakari Ailus