This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
stm class: Fix a double free in stm_register_device()
to the 5.15-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:
stm-class-fix-a-double-free-in-stm_register_device.patch
and it can be found in the queue-5.15 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit 3f958a7b592acbea42f47691657bdedfb1233f0f
Author: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon Apr 29 16:01:05 2024 +0300
stm class: Fix a double free in stm_register_device()
[ Upstream commit 3df463865ba42b8f88a590326f4c9ea17a1ce459 ]
The put_device(&stm->dev) call will trigger stm_device_release() which
frees "stm" so the vfree(stm) on the next line is a double free.
Fixes: 389b6699a2aa ("stm class: Fix stm device initialization order")
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Amelie Delaunay <amelie.delaunay@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240429130119.1518073-2-alexander.shishkin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/drivers/hwtracing/stm/core.c b/drivers/hwtracing/stm/core.c
index 2712e699ba08c..ae9ea3a1fa2aa 100644
--- a/drivers/hwtracing/stm/core.c
+++ b/drivers/hwtracing/stm/core.c
@@ -868,8 +868,11 @@ int stm_register_device(struct device *parent, struct stm_data *stm_data,
return -ENOMEM;
stm->major = register_chrdev(0, stm_data->name, &stm_fops);
- if (stm->major < 0)
- goto err_free;
+ if (stm->major < 0) {
+ err = stm->major;
+ vfree(stm);
+ return err;
+ }
device_initialize(&stm->dev);
stm->dev.devt = MKDEV(stm->major, 0);
@@ -913,10 +916,8 @@ int stm_register_device(struct device *parent, struct stm_data *stm_data,
err_device:
unregister_chrdev(stm->major, stm_data->name);
- /* matches device_initialize() above */
+ /* calls stm_device_release() */
put_device(&stm->dev);
-err_free:
- vfree(stm);
return err;
}
