[PATCH master 1/2] FIT: fix double free issue with >1 reference count

Ahmad Fatoum a.fatoum at pengutronix.de
Mon Jan 26 02:44:29 PST 2026


fit_open() was recently changed to be reference counted. When the FIT is
already open, a handle will be returned with the canonical filename
being the only allocation incurred.

fit_close() however unconditionally frees the handle without regards to
the reference count.

Fix this and while at it, fix the memory leak for the canonical filename
as well.

Reported-by: Claude Sonnet 4.5 <noreply at anthropic.com>
Fixes: f3aadb274abe ("FIT: add support to cache opened fit images")
Signed-off-by: Ahmad Fatoum <a.fatoum at pengutronix.de>
---
 common/image-fit.c | 10 ++++++----
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/common/image-fit.c b/common/image-fit.c
index d8fa5a4c8a8b..b5d0e2e5381f 100644
--- a/common/image-fit.c
+++ b/common/image-fit.c
@@ -1020,6 +1020,7 @@ struct fit_handle *fit_open(const char *_filename, bool verbose,
 
 	handle = fit_get_handle(filename);
 	if (handle) {
+		free(filename);
 		refcount_inc(&handle->users);
 		return handle;
 	}
@@ -1053,10 +1054,10 @@ struct fit_handle *fit_open(const char *_filename, bool verbose,
 	return handle;
 }
 
-static void __fit_close(struct fit_handle *handle)
+static bool __fit_close(struct fit_handle *handle)
 {
 	if (!refcount_dec_and_test(&handle->users))
-		return;
+		return false;
 
 	if (handle->root)
 		of_delete_node(handle->root);
@@ -1066,12 +1067,13 @@ static void __fit_close(struct fit_handle *handle)
 
 	free(handle->filename);
 	free(handle->fit_alloc);
+	return true;
 }
 
 void fit_close(struct fit_handle *handle)
 {
-	__fit_close(handle);
-	free(handle);
+	if (__fit_close(handle))
+		free(handle);
 }
 
 static int do_bootm_fit(struct image_data *data)
-- 
2.47.3




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