Re: gigaset: memory leak in gigaset_initcshw

[Paul Bolle]

Hi Dmitry,

On wo, 2016-02-03 at 17:16 +0100, Paul Bolle wrote:
> The above should provide me with enough information to figure out
> what's going on here.

I've instrumented ser_gigaset with some printk's. Basically I added the
stuff pasted at the end of this message. In 10.000 runs of the program
syzkaller generated the added printk's suggest that struct ser_cardstate
is freed every time.

(Note that this was done on a machine that, probably like the VM
syzkaller was running in, doesn't have the clunky hardware that this
driver manages attached.)

Before I dive deeper into this: can you reproduce this leak? Is it
perhaps a one in gazillion runs thing? Do you have the logs of a run
that warned about this leak at hand?

Thanks,


Paul Bolle

@@ -375,9 +377,12 @@ static void gigaset_device_release(struct device *dev)
 {
        struct cardstate *cs = dev_get_drvdata(dev);
 
-       if (!cs)
+       if (!cs) {
+               pr_info("%s: no cardstate", __func__);
                return;
+       }
        dev_set_drvdata(dev, NULL);
+       pr_info("%s: kfree(%p)", __func__, cs->hw.ser);
        kfree(cs->hw.ser);
        cs->hw.ser = NULL;
 }
@@ -392,6 +397,7 @@ static int gigaset_initcshw(struct cardstate *cs)
        struct ser_cardstate *scs;
 
        scs = kzalloc(sizeof(struct ser_cardstate), GFP_KERNEL);
+       pr_info("%s: scs = %p", __func__, scs);
        if (!scs) {
                pr_err("out of memory\n");
                return -ENOMEM;