This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled staging: greybus: spilib: fix use-after-free after deregistration to my staging git tree which can be found at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/staging.git in the staging-testing branch. The patch will show up in the next release of the linux-next tree (usually sometime within the next 24 hours during the week.) The patch will be merged to the staging-next branch sometime soon, after it passes testing, and the merge window is open. If you have any questions about this process, please let me know. >From 770b03c2ca4aa44d226cf248f86aa23e546147d0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Johan Hovold <johan@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2017 13:01:33 +0100 Subject: staging: greybus: spilib: fix use-after-free after deregistration Remove erroneous spi_master_put() after controller deregistration which would access the already freed spi controller. Note that spi_unregister_master() drops our only controller reference. Fixes: ba3e67001b42 ("greybus: SPI: convert to a gpbridge driver") Cc: stable <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> # 4.9 Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Rui Miguel Silva <rmfrfs@xxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/staging/greybus/spilib.c | 8 +++++--- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/staging/greybus/spilib.c b/drivers/staging/greybus/spilib.c index e97b19148497..1e7321a1404c 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/greybus/spilib.c +++ b/drivers/staging/greybus/spilib.c @@ -544,11 +544,14 @@ int gb_spilib_master_init(struct gb_connection *connection, struct device *dev, return 0; -exit_spi_unregister: - spi_unregister_master(master); exit_spi_put: spi_master_put(master); + return ret; + +exit_spi_unregister: + spi_unregister_master(master); + return ret; } EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(gb_spilib_master_init); @@ -558,7 +561,6 @@ void gb_spilib_master_exit(struct gb_connection *connection) struct spi_master *master = gb_connection_get_data(connection); spi_unregister_master(master); - spi_master_put(master); } EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(gb_spilib_master_exit); -- 2.15.0