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Revision aa93d1fee85c890a34f2510a310e55ee76a27848 authored by James Patrick-Evans on 15 July 2016, 15:40:45 UTC, committed by Linus Torvalds on 15 July 2016, 21:15:40 UTC 
media: fix airspy usb probe error path
 
Fix a memory leak on probe error of the airspy usb device driver.

The problem is triggered when more than 64 usb devices register with
v4l2 of type VFL_TYPE_SDR or VFL_TYPE_SUBDEV.

The memory leak is caused by the probe function of the airspy driver
mishandeling errors and not freeing the corresponding control structures
when an error occours registering the device to v4l2 core.

A badusb device can emulate 64 of these devices, and then through
continual emulated connect/disconnect of the 65th device, cause the
kernel to run out of RAM and crash the kernel, thus causing a local DOS
vulnerability.

Fixes CVE-2016-5400

Signed-off-by: James Patrick-Evans <james@jmp-e.com>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 3.17+
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Tip revision: ffb4d94b4314655cea60ab7962756e6bab72fc7e authored by Linus Torvalds on 30 September 2022, 23:25:52 UTC
Merge tag 'drm-fixes-2022-10-01' of git://anongit.freedesktop.org/drm/drm
Tip revision: ffb4d94
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