Re: [PATCH] usb: host: xhci: Fix potential memory leak in xhci_alloc_stream_info()

From: Mathias Nyman
Date: Wed Sep 07 2022 - 07:41:14 EST


On 7.9.2022 10.48, Jianglei Nie wrote:
xhci_alloc_stream_info() allocates stream context array for stream_info
->stream_ctx_array with xhci_alloc_stream_ctx(). When some error occurs,
stream_info->stream_ctx_array is not released, which will lead to a
memory leak.

We can fix it by releasing the stream_info->stream_ctx_array with
xhci_free_stream_ctx() on the error path to avoid the potential memory
leak.

Signed-off-by: Jianglei Nie <niejianglei2021@xxxxxxx>

Thanks, good to get this fixed.

Adding to for-usb-next and skipping stable as hitting this path is mostly theoretical.

-Mathias