This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
regulator: fix use after free issue
to the 5.4-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
regulator-fix-use-after-free-issue.patch
and it can be found in the queue-5.4 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit 6f8a46b81e4b80f695dd050188432da2f59b81a1
Author: Wen Yang <wenyang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun Nov 24 22:58:35 2019 +0800
regulator: fix use after free issue
[ Upstream commit 4affd79a125ac91e6a53be843ea3960a8fc00cbb ]
This is caused by dereferencing 'rdev' after put_device() in
the _regulator_get()/_regulator_put() functions.
This patch just moves the put_device() down a bit to avoid the
issue.
Signed-off-by: Wen Yang <wenyang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Liam Girdwood <lgirdwood@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Mark Brown <broonie@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191124145835.25999-1-wenyang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/drivers/regulator/core.c b/drivers/regulator/core.c
index 87bc06b386a0..d66404920976 100644
--- a/drivers/regulator/core.c
+++ b/drivers/regulator/core.c
@@ -1937,8 +1937,8 @@ struct regulator *_regulator_get(struct device *dev, const char *id,
regulator = create_regulator(rdev, dev, id);
if (regulator == NULL) {
regulator = ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
- put_device(&rdev->dev);
module_put(rdev->owner);
+ put_device(&rdev->dev);
return regulator;
}
@@ -2059,13 +2059,13 @@ static void _regulator_put(struct regulator *regulator)
rdev->open_count--;
rdev->exclusive = 0;
- put_device(&rdev->dev);
regulator_unlock(rdev);
kfree_const(regulator->supply_name);
kfree(regulator);
module_put(rdev->owner);
+ put_device(&rdev->dev);
}
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