On 30.05.22 07:33, Muchun Song wrote:
> The device_unregister() is supposed to be used to unregister devices if
> device_register() has succeed. And device_unregister() will put device.
> The caller should not do it again, otherwise, the first call of
> put_device() will drop the last reference count, then the next call
> of device_unregister() will UAF on device.
>
> Fixes: 4fb6eabf1037 ("drivers/base/memory.c: cache memory blocks in xarray to accelerate lookup")
> Signed-off-by: Muchun Song <songmuchun@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/base/memory.c | 5 ++---
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/base/memory.c b/drivers/base/memory.c
> index 7222ff9b5e05..084d67fd55cc 100644
> --- a/drivers/base/memory.c
> +++ b/drivers/base/memory.c
> @@ -636,10 +636,9 @@ static int __add_memory_block(struct memory_block *memory)
> }
> ret = xa_err(xa_store(&memory_blocks, memory->dev.id, memory,
> GFP_KERNEL));
> - if (ret) {
> - put_device(&memory->dev);
> + if (ret)
> device_unregister(&memory->dev);
> - }
> +
> return ret;
> }
>
See
https://lkml.kernel.org/r/d44c63d78affe844f020dc02ad6af29abc448fc4.1650611702.git.christophe.jaillet@xxxxxxxxxx
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Thanks,
David / dhildenb
