From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@linaro.org>
Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2024 13:01:05 +0000 (+0300)
Subject: stm class: Fix a double free in stm_register_device()
X-Git-Tag: v5.15.161~175
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=7419df1acffbcc90037f6b5a2823e81389659b36;p=thirdparty%2Fkernel%2Fstable.git

stm class: Fix a double free in stm_register_device()

[ Upstream commit 3df463865ba42b8f88a590326f4c9ea17a1ce459 ]

The put_device(&stm->dev) call will trigger stm_device_release() which
frees "stm" so the vfree(stm) on the next line is a double free.

Fixes: 389b6699a2aa ("stm class: Fix stm device initialization order")
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Amelie Delaunay <amelie.delaunay@foss.st.com>
Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240429130119.1518073-2-alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---

diff --git a/drivers/hwtracing/stm/core.c b/drivers/hwtracing/stm/core.c
index 2712e699ba08c..ae9ea3a1fa2aa 100644
--- a/drivers/hwtracing/stm/core.c
+++ b/drivers/hwtracing/stm/core.c
@@ -868,8 +868,11 @@ int stm_register_device(struct device *parent, struct stm_data *stm_data,
 		return -ENOMEM;
 
 	stm->major = register_chrdev(0, stm_data->name, &stm_fops);
-	if (stm->major < 0)
-		goto err_free;
+	if (stm->major < 0) {
+		err = stm->major;
+		vfree(stm);
+		return err;
+	}
 
 	device_initialize(&stm->dev);
 	stm->dev.devt = MKDEV(stm->major, 0);
@@ -913,10 +916,8 @@ int stm_register_device(struct device *parent, struct stm_data *stm_data,
 err_device:
 	unregister_chrdev(stm->major, stm_data->name);
 
-	/* matches device_initialize() above */
+	/* calls stm_device_release() */
 	put_device(&stm->dev);
-err_free:
-	vfree(stm);
 
 	return err;
 }