On Thu, Jan 20, 2022 at 11:37 AM Miaoqian Lin <linmq006@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Callback function rtrs_clt_dev_release() in put_device()
> calls kfree(clt); to free memory. We shouldn't call kfree(clt) again.
>
right, there is a bug, but the fix is not right.
> Fixes: 6a98d71daea1 ("RDMA/rtrs: client: main functionality")
> Signed-off-by: Miaoqian Lin <linmq006@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/infiniband/ulp/rtrs/rtrs-clt.c | 5 ++++-
> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/ulp/rtrs/rtrs-clt.c b/drivers/infiniband/ulp/rtrs/rtrs-clt.c
> index 7c3f98e57889..61723f48fbd4 100644
> --- a/drivers/infiniband/ulp/rtrs/rtrs-clt.c
> +++ b/drivers/infiniband/ulp/rtrs/rtrs-clt.c
> @@ -2741,7 +2741,7 @@ static struct rtrs_clt_sess *alloc_clt(const char *sessname, size_t paths_num,
> err = device_register(&clt->dev);
> if (err) {
> put_device(&clt->dev);
> - goto err;
> + goto err_free_cpu;
> }
>
> clt->kobj_paths = kobject_create_and_add("paths", &clt->dev.kobj);
> @@ -2764,6 +2764,9 @@ static struct rtrs_clt_sess *alloc_clt(const char *sessname, size_t paths_num,
> err:
> free_percpu(clt->pcpu_path);
> kfree(clt);
> + clt->pcpu_path = NULL;
> +err_free_cpu:
> + free_percpu(clt->pcpu_path);
this still lead to use after free, because clt could be free already.
the right fix should move the free_percpu() to the release call back
before kfree(clt);
> return ERR_PTR(err);
> }
>
> --
> 2.17.1
>
