[PATCH] hwtracing: stm: fix possible double free in stm_register_device()

Hangyu Hua hbh25y at gmail.com
Wed Jun 22 18:44:09 PDT 2022


On 2022/5/23 09:55, Hangyu Hua wrote:
> Gentel ping.
> 
> On 2022/5/5 09:29, Hangyu Hua wrote:
>> Ping
>>
>> On 2022/4/18 16:16, Hangyu Hua wrote:
>>> put_device() will call stm_device_release() to free stm when
>>> stm_register_device() fails. So there is no need to call vfree() again.
>>>
>>> Fix this by adding a return after put_device().
>>>
>>> Fixes: 7bd1d4093c2f ("stm class: Introduce an abstraction for System 
>>> Trace Module devices")
>>> Signed-off-by: Hangyu Hua <hbh25y at gmail.com>
>>> ---
>>>   drivers/hwtracing/stm/core.c | 1 +
>>>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/drivers/hwtracing/stm/core.c b/drivers/hwtracing/stm/core.c
>>> index 2712e699ba08..403b4f41bb1b 100644
>>> --- a/drivers/hwtracing/stm/core.c
>>> +++ b/drivers/hwtracing/stm/core.c
>>> @@ -915,6 +915,7 @@ int stm_register_device(struct device *parent, 
>>> struct stm_data *stm_data,
>>>       /* matches device_initialize() above */
>>>       put_device(&stm->dev);
>>> +    return err;
>>>   err_free:
>>>       vfree(stm);

Gentel ping.



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