[PATCH] mtd: mtdswap: Avoid freeing registered blktrans device twice
Ruoyu Wang
ruoyuw560 at gmail.com
Wed Jul 8 07:33:55 PDT 2026
In mtdswap_add_mtd(), debugfs setup failure after successful blktrans
registration can free mbd_dev twice.
add_mtd_blktrans_dev() initializes the blktrans device reference and
publishes the disk. Once that succeeds, del_mtd_blktrans_dev() tears the
disk down and drops the blktrans reference; when that reference reaches
zero, blktrans_dev_release() frees the mtd_blktrans_dev.
The debugfs failure path called del_mtd_blktrans_dev(mbd_dev), then fell
through the common cleanup label and called kfree(mbd_dev) again. Clear
the local pointer after deregistration so the common cleanup can still
release the mtdswap state without freeing the blktrans object twice.
This issue was found by a static analysis checker and confirmed by
manual source review.
Fixes: e8e3edb95ce6 ("mtd: create per-device and module-scope debugfs entries")
Signed-off-by: Ruoyu Wang <ruoyuw560 at gmail.com>
---
drivers/mtd/mtdswap.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff --git a/drivers/mtd/mtdswap.c b/drivers/mtd/mtdswap.c
index 866933fc84265..533b8948918cb 100644
--- a/drivers/mtd/mtdswap.c
+++ b/drivers/mtd/mtdswap.c
@@ -1450,6 +1450,7 @@ static void mtdswap_add_mtd(struct mtd_blktrans_ops *tr, struct mtd_info *mtd)
debugfs_failed:
del_mtd_blktrans_dev(mbd_dev);
+ mbd_dev = NULL;
cleanup:
mtdswap_cleanup(d);
--
2.51.0
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