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staging: media: ipu7: fix double-free and use-after-free in error paths
authorAlexandru Hossu <hossu.alexandru@gmail.com>
Mon, 13 Apr 2026 15:12:44 +0000 (17:12 +0200)
committerSakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@linux.intel.com>
Tue, 5 May 2026 12:27:36 +0000 (15:27 +0300)
commitd3a9a8cf2d7fd61a2f63df61f6cbc0a9bb007cc0
treec8b411fbda5e3894391a86e30ee28aa748a9d60f
parentd7fe0d53b2a8b08f6042cc89315118dee49e072e
staging: media: ipu7: fix double-free and use-after-free in error paths

In both ipu7_isys_init() and ipu7_psys_init(), pdata is allocated and
then passed to ipu7_bus_initialize_device(), which stores it in
adev->pdata. The ipu7_bus_release() function frees adev->pdata when the
device's reference count drops to zero.

Two error paths incorrectly call kfree(pdata) after the device teardown
has already freed it:

1. When ipu7_mmu_init() fails: put_device() is called, which drops the
   reference count to zero and triggers ipu7_bus_release() ->
   kfree(pdata). The subsequent kfree(pdata) is a double-free.

2. When ipu7_bus_add_device() fails: it calls auxiliary_device_uninit()
   internally, which calls put_device() -> ipu7_bus_release() ->
   kfree(pdata). The subsequent kfree(pdata) is again a double-free.

Note that the kfree(pdata) when ipu7_bus_initialize_device() itself
fails is correct, because in that case auxiliary_device_init() failed
and the release function was never set up, so pdata must be freed
manually.

Additionally, the error code was not saved before calling put_device(),
causing ERR_CAST() to dereference the already-freed adev pointer when
constructing the return value. Fix this by saving the error from
dev_err_probe() before put_device() and returning ERR_PTR() instead.

Remove the redundant kfree(pdata) calls and fix the use-after-free in
the return values of the two affected error paths.

Fixes: b7fe4c0019b1 ("media: staging/ipu7: add Intel IPU7 PCI device driver")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexandru Hossu <hossu.alexandru@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@linux.intel.com>
drivers/staging/media/ipu7/ipu7.c