-----Original Message-----
From: <[email protected]> on behalf of "Jason A. Harmening" 
<[email protected]>
Date: 2016-05-19, Thursday at 20:03
To: <[email protected]>, <[email protected]>, 
<[email protected]>
Subject: svn commit: r300258 - head/sys/dev/iicbus

>Author: jah
>Date: Fri May 20 03:03:04 2016
>New Revision: 300258
>URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/300258
>
>Log:
>  iic_rdwr_data->nmsgs is uint32_t, so limit the allowable number of messages 
> to prevent memory exhaustion and short allocations on 32-bit systems. Since 
> iicrdwr is intended to be a workalike of a Linux i2c-dev call, use the same 
> limit of 42 that Linux uses.
>  
>  Also check the return value of copyin(9) to prevent unnecessary allocation 
> in the failure case.
>  
>  ...
>  
>       error = copyin(d->msgs, buf, sizeof(*d->msgs) * d->nmsgs);
>+      if (error != 0) {
>+              free(buf, M_IIC);
>+              return (error);
>+      }
> 

Hi Jason,

If I’m reading that right, it’s not preventing any allocations, but it is 
preventing a leak. Is that correct?

Thanks,

Ravi (rpokala@)


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