linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH net V2] net: pds_core: Fix possible double free in error handling path

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2024 12:26:32 -0800
From: Breno Leitao <leitao@...ian.org>
To: hyper <hyperlyzcs@...il.com>
Cc: shannon.nelson@....com, brett.creeley@....com, davem@...emloft.net,
	edumazet@...gle.com, kuba@...nel.org, pabeni@...hat.com,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	jitxie@...cent.com, huntazhang@...cent.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net V2] net: pds_core: Fix possible double free in error
 handling path

On Sun, Mar 03, 2024 at 04:49:54PM +0800, hyper wrote:
> When auxiliary_device_add() returns error and then calls
> auxiliary_device_uninit(), Callback function pdsc_auxbus_dev_release
> calls kfree(padev) to free memory. We shouldn't call kfree(padev)
> again in the error handling path.
> 
> Fix this by cleaning up the redundant kfree() and putting
> the error handling back to where the errors happened.
> 
> Fixes: 4569cce43bc6 ("pds_core: add auxiliary_bus devices")
> Signed-off-by: hyper <hyperlyzcs@...il.com>

I liked this v2 better.

Reviewed-by: Breno Leitao <leitao@...ian.org>