From: Stefan Kerkmann <s.kerkmann@pengutronix.de>
To: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@linaro.org>
Cc: Brian Norris <briannorris@chromium.org>,
Francesco Dolcini <francesco@dolcini.it>,
Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>,
Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>,
Jeff Chen <jeff.chen_1@nxp.com>,
linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH next] wifi: mwifiex: fix double free in mwifiex_send_rgpower_table()
Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2025 15:10:44 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <c3f3370f-1f2c-4e35-81a4-4303aed2d438@pengutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <aLqZBh5_dSHUb4AE@stanley.mountain>
Hi Dan,
thanks for spotting and fixing the double free error. I converted the
code to use the cleanup helper late in the dev process and forgot to
remove the call. I sent a patch for the endianness bug as well.
On 05.09.25 10:02, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> The "hostcmd" is freed using cleanup.h, so calling kfree() will lead to
> a double free. Delete the kfree().
>
> Fixes: 7b6f16a25806 ("wifi: mwifiex: add rgpower table loading support")
> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@linaro.org>
> ---
> drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/sta_cmd.c | 4 +---
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/sta_cmd.c b/drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/sta_cmd.c
> index 6d9e2af29a69..91d5098081e8 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/sta_cmd.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/sta_cmd.c
> @@ -1521,10 +1521,8 @@ int mwifiex_send_rgpower_table(struct mwifiex_private *priv, const u8 *data,
> return -ENOMEM;
>
> _data = kmemdup(data, size, GFP_KERNEL);
> - if (!_data) {
> - kfree(hostcmd);
> + if (!_data)
> return -ENOMEM;
> - }
>
> pos = _data;
> ptr = hostcmd->cmd;
Thank you,
Stefan
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2025-09-05 8:02 Dan Carpenter
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