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    staging: comedi: fix memory leak for saved channel list · c8cad4c8
    Ian Abbott authored
    When `do_cmd_ioctl()` allocates memory for the kernel copy of a channel
    list, it frees any previously allocated channel list in
    `async->cmd.chanlist` and replaces it with the new one.  However, if the
    device is ever removed (or "detached") the cleanup code in
    `cleanup_device()` in "drivers.c" does not free this memory so it is
    lost.
    
    A sensible place to free the kernel copy of the channel list is in
    `do_become_nonbusy()` as at that point the comedi asynchronous command
    associated with the channel list is no longer valid.  Free the channel
    list in `do_become_nonbusy()` instead of `do_cmd_ioctl()` and clear the
    pointer to prevent it being freed more than once.
    
    Note that `cleanup_device()` could be called at an inappropriate time
    while the comedi device is open, but that's a separate bug not related
    to this this patch.
    
    Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
    Signed-off-by: default avatarIan Abbott <abbotti@mev.co.uk>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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