[PATCH net-next] net: thunderx: fix double free error
David Miller
davem at davemloft.net
Sat Nov 11 02:23:07 PST 2017
From: Aleksey Makarov <aleksey.makarov at cavium.com>
Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2017 14:58:57 +0300
> This patch fixes an error in memory allocation/freeing in
> ThunderX PF driver.
>
> I moved the allocation to the probe() function and made it managed.
>
> From the Colin's email:
>
> While running static analysis on linux-next with CoverityScan I found 3
> double free errors in the Cavium thunder driver.
>
> The issue occurs on the err_disable_device: label of function nic_probe
> when nic_free_lmacmem(nic) is called and a double free occurs on
> nic->duplex, nic->link and nic->speed. This occurs when nic_init_hw()
> fails:
>
> /* Initialize hardware */
> err = nic_init_hw(nic);
> if (err)
> goto err_release_regions;
>
> nic_init_hw() calls nic_get_hw_info() and this calls nic_free_lmacmem()
> if any of the allocations fail. This free'ing occurs again by the call
> to nic_free_lmacmem() on the err_release_regions exit path in nic_probe().
>
> Reported-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king at canonical.com>
> Signed-off-by: Aleksey Makarov <aleksey.makarov at cavium.com>
Applied, thank you.
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