From: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
Date: Tue, 9 Nov 2010 22:00:41 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: ALSA: sound/pci/ctxfi/ctpcm.c: Remove potential for use after free
X-Git-Tag: v2.6.37-rc4~59^2~16
X-Git-Url: http://git.openpandora.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=fa2b30af84e84129b8d4cf955890ad167cc20cf0;p=pandora-kernel.git

ALSA: sound/pci/ctxfi/ctpcm.c: Remove potential for use after free

In each function, the value apcm is stored in the private_data field of
runtime.  At the same time the function ct_atc_pcm_free_substream is stored
in the private_free field of the same structure.  ct_atc_pcm_free_substream
dereferences and ultimately frees the value in the private_data field.  But
each function can exit in an error case with apcm having been freed, in
which case a subsequent call to the private_free function would perform a
dereference after free.  On the other hand, if the private_free field is
not initialized, it is NULL, and not invoked (see snd_pcm_detach_substream
in sound/core/pcm.c).  To avoid the introduction of a dangling pointer, the
initializations of the private_data and private_free fields are moved to
the end of the function, past any possible free of apcm.  This is safe
because the previous calls to snd_pcm_hw_constraint_integer and
snd_pcm_hw_constraint_minmax, which take runtime as an argument, do not
refer to either of these fields.

In each function, there is one error case where apcm needs to be freed, and
a call to kfree is added.

The sematic match that finds this problem is as follows:
(http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/)

// <smpl>
@@
expression e,e1,e2,e3;
identifier f,free1,free2;
expression a;
@@

*e->f = a
... when != e->f = e1
    when any
if (...) {
  ... when != free1(...,e,...)
      when != e->f = e2
* kfree(a)
  ... when != free2(...,e,...)
      when != e->f = e3
}
// </smpl>

Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
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