linux-kernel - Re: scsi: pm8001: fix double free in pm8001_pci

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Date:   Thu, 10 Aug 2017 20:05:37 -0400
From:   "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>
To:     Pan Bian <bianpan2016@....com>
Cc:     Jack Wang <jinpu.wang@...fitbricks.com>, lindar_liu@...sh.com,
        "James E.J. Bottomley" <jejb@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>,
        linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: scsi: pm8001: fix double free in pm8001_pci_probe


Pan,

> In function pm8001_pci_probe(), on errors that the control flow jumps to
> label err_out_ha_free, function pm8001_free() is called. In pm8001_free(),
> scsi_host_put() is called to release shost, which keeps the return value
> of scsi_host_alloc(). After pm8001_free() returns, kfree() is called to
> free shost again, resulting in a double free bug. This patch removes
> scsi_host_put() from pm8001_free() and explicitly calls scsi_host_put()
> to release Scsi_Host in need.

Applied to 4.14/scsi-queue.

-- 
Martin K. Petersen	Oracle Linux Engineering