6.1-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Hao Ge <gehao@xxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 1558b1a8dd388f5fcc3abc1e24de854a295044c3 ] dsp_chan->name and chan_name points to same block of memory, because dev_err still needs to be used it,so we need free it's memory after use to avoid use_after_free. Fixes: e527adfb9b7d ("firmware: imx-dsp: Fix an error handling path in imx_dsp_setup_channels()") Signed-off-by: Hao Ge <gehao@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Daniel Baluta <daniel.baluta@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Shawn Guo <shawnguo@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/firmware/imx/imx-dsp.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/firmware/imx/imx-dsp.c b/drivers/firmware/imx/imx-dsp.c index 1f410809d3ee4..0f656e4191d5c 100644 --- a/drivers/firmware/imx/imx-dsp.c +++ b/drivers/firmware/imx/imx-dsp.c @@ -115,11 +115,11 @@ static int imx_dsp_setup_channels(struct imx_dsp_ipc *dsp_ipc) dsp_chan->idx = i % 2; dsp_chan->ch = mbox_request_channel_byname(cl, chan_name); if (IS_ERR(dsp_chan->ch)) { - kfree(dsp_chan->name); ret = PTR_ERR(dsp_chan->ch); if (ret != -EPROBE_DEFER) dev_err(dev, "Failed to request mbox chan %s ret %d\n", chan_name, ret); + kfree(dsp_chan->name); goto out; } -- 2.42.0