If platform_profile_register() fails it does kfree(thermal_handler) and leaves the pointer value around. Any call to thermal_cleanup() will try to kfree(thermal_handler) again. This will happen right away in dell_init(). In addition, platform_profile_remove() will be called although no profile is registered. NULL out the thermal_handler, so thermal_cleanup() avoids the double free. Fixes: 996ad4129810 ("platform/x86: dell-pc: Implement platform_profile") Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- Currently the call to thermal_cleanup() in dell_init() is completely unnecessary. But I guess more functionality will be handled by the driver and then this structure makes sense. This is untested. --- drivers/platform/x86/dell/dell-pc.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/platform/x86/dell/dell-pc.c b/drivers/platform/x86/dell/dell-pc.c index dfe09c463d03..972385ca1990 100644 --- a/drivers/platform/x86/dell/dell-pc.c +++ b/drivers/platform/x86/dell/dell-pc.c @@ -261,8 +261,10 @@ static int thermal_init(void) /* Clean up if failed */ ret = platform_profile_register(thermal_handler); - if (ret) + if (ret) { kfree(thermal_handler); + thermal_handler = NULL; + } return ret; } --- base-commit: 0da7a954480cc99978e3570c991e3779e56fc736 change-id: 20240604-dell-pc-double-free-e8cf2aa9b2fb Best regards, -- Thomas Weißschuh <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>