From: Pan Bian <bianpan2016@xxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 517ce4e93368938b204451285e53014549804868 ] The address of fw_vsc_cfg is on stack. Releasing it with devm_kfree() is incorrect, which may result in a system crash or other security impacts. The expected object to free is *fw_vsc_cfg. Signed-off-by: Pan Bian <bianpan2016@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/nfc/fdp/i2c.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/drivers/nfc/fdp/i2c.c +++ b/drivers/nfc/fdp/i2c.c @@ -259,7 +259,7 @@ static void fdp_nci_i2c_read_device_prop *fw_vsc_cfg, len); if (r) { - devm_kfree(dev, fw_vsc_cfg); + devm_kfree(dev, *fw_vsc_cfg); goto vsc_read_err; } } else {