From: Ian Abbott <abbotti@xxxxxxxxx> commit 663d294b4768bfd89e529e069bffa544a830b5bf upstream. `vmk80xx_alloc_usb_buffers()` is called from `vmk80xx_auto_attach()` to allocate RX and TX buffers for USB transfers. It allocates `devpriv->usb_rx_buf` followed by `devpriv->usb_tx_buf`. If the allocation of `devpriv->usb_tx_buf` fails, it frees `devpriv->usb_rx_buf`, leaving the pointer set dangling, and returns an error. Later, `vmk80xx_detach()` will be called from the core comedi module code to clean up. `vmk80xx_detach()` also frees both `devpriv->usb_rx_buf` and `devpriv->usb_tx_buf`, but `devpriv->usb_rx_buf` may have already been freed, leading to a double-free error. Fix it by removing the call to `kfree(devpriv->usb_rx_buf)` from `vmk80xx_alloc_usb_buffers()`, relying on `vmk80xx_detach()` to free the memory. Signed-off-by: Ian Abbott <abbotti@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: stable <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/vmk80xx.c | 4 +--- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/vmk80xx.c +++ b/drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/vmk80xx.c @@ -757,10 +757,8 @@ static int vmk80xx_alloc_usb_buffers(str size = le16_to_cpu(devpriv->ep_tx->wMaxPacketSize); devpriv->usb_tx_buf = kzalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL); - if (!devpriv->usb_tx_buf) { - kfree(devpriv->usb_rx_buf); + if (!devpriv->usb_tx_buf) return -ENOMEM; - } return 0; }