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* [PATCH v2] rapidio: fix an API misues when rio_add_net() fails
@ 2025-02-27  7:34 Haoxiang Li
  2025-02-27  9:59 ` Dan Carpenter
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Haoxiang Li @ 2025-02-27  7:34 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: mporter, alex.bou9, haoxiang_li2024, akpm, error27; +Cc: linux-kernel, stable

rio_add_net() calls device_register() and fails when device_register()
fails. Thus, put_device() should be used rather than kfree().
Add "mport->net = NULL;" to avoid a use after free issue.

Fixes: e8de370188d0 ("rapidio: add mport char device driver")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Haoxiang Li <haoxiang_li2024@163.com>
---
Changes in v2:
- Add "mport->net = NULL;" to avoid a use after free issue. Thanks, Dan!
---
 drivers/rapidio/devices/rio_mport_cdev.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/rapidio/devices/rio_mport_cdev.c b/drivers/rapidio/devices/rio_mport_cdev.c
index 27afbb9d544b..cbf531d0ba68 100644
--- a/drivers/rapidio/devices/rio_mport_cdev.c
+++ b/drivers/rapidio/devices/rio_mport_cdev.c
@@ -1742,7 +1742,8 @@ static int rio_mport_add_riodev(struct mport_cdev_priv *priv,
 		err = rio_add_net(net);
 		if (err) {
 			rmcd_debug(RDEV, "failed to register net, err=%d", err);
-			kfree(net);
+			put_device(&net->dev);
+			mport->net = NULL;
 			goto cleanup;
 		}
 	}
-- 
2.25.1


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* Re: [PATCH v2] rapidio: fix an API misues when rio_add_net() fails
  2025-02-27  7:34 [PATCH v2] rapidio: fix an API misues when rio_add_net() fails Haoxiang Li
@ 2025-02-27  9:59 ` Dan Carpenter
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Dan Carpenter @ 2025-02-27  9:59 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Haoxiang Li; +Cc: mporter, alex.bou9, akpm, error27, linux-kernel, stable

On Thu, Feb 27, 2025 at 03:34:09PM +0800, Haoxiang Li wrote:
> rio_add_net() calls device_register() and fails when device_register()
> fails. Thus, put_device() should be used rather than kfree().
> Add "mport->net = NULL;" to avoid a use after free issue.
> 
> Fixes: e8de370188d0 ("rapidio: add mport char device driver")
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Haoxiang Li <haoxiang_li2024@163.com>
> ---
> Changes in v2:
> - Add "mport->net = NULL;" to avoid a use after free issue. Thanks, Dan!

Thank you!

Reviewed-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@linaro.org>

regards,
dan carpenter


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