In function dvb_register_device() -> dvb_register_media_device() ->
dvb_create_media_entity(), dvb->entity is allocated and initialized. If
the initialization fails, it frees the dvb->entity, and return an error
code. The caller takes the error code and handles the error by calling
dvb_media_device_free(), which unregisters the entity and frees the
field again if it is not NULL. As dvb->entity may not NULLed in
dvb_create_media_entity() when the allocation of dvbdev->pad fails, a
double free may occur. This may also cause an Use After free in
media_device_unregister_entity().
Fix this by storing NULL to dvb->entity when it is freed.
Fixes: fcd5ce4b3936 ("media: dvb-core: fix a memory leak bug")
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: Wenwen Wang <wenwen@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Keita Suzuki <keitasuzuki.park@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/media/dvb-core/dvbdev.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff --git a/drivers/media/dvb-core/dvbdev.c b/drivers/media/dvb-core/dvbdev.c
index 675d877a67b2..4597af108f4d 100644
--- a/drivers/media/dvb-core/dvbdev.c
+++ b/drivers/media/dvb-core/dvbdev.c
@@ -332,6 +332,7 @@ static int dvb_create_media_entity(struct dvb_device *dvbdev,
GFP_KERNEL);
if (!dvbdev->pads) {
kfree(dvbdev->entity);
+ dvbdev->entity = NULL;
return -ENOMEM;
}
}
--
2.25.1
