[PATCH v2] fsi: Aspeed: Fix a potential double free

Christophe JAILLET christophe.jaillet at wanadoo.fr
Mon Jan 10 00:20:35 AEDT 2022


A struct device can never be devm_alloc()'ed.
Here, it is embedded in "struct fsi_master", and "struct fsi_master" is
embedded in "struct fsi_master_aspeed".

Since "struct device" is embedded, the data structure embedding it must be
released with the release function, as is already done here.

So use kzalloc() instead of devm_kzalloc() when allocating "aspeed".
This prevent a potential double free().

Fixes: 606397d67f41 ("fsi: Add ast2600 master driver")
Suggested-by: Greg KH <gregkh at linuxfoundation.org>
Suggested-by: Guenter Roeck <linux at roeck-us.net>
Signed-off-by: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet at wanadoo.fr>
---
v2: Keep the release function which is correct
    s/devm_kzalloc()/kzalloc()/ instead
---
 drivers/fsi/fsi-master-aspeed.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/fsi/fsi-master-aspeed.c b/drivers/fsi/fsi-master-aspeed.c
index 8606e55c1721..ae6319818b14 100644
--- a/drivers/fsi/fsi-master-aspeed.c
+++ b/drivers/fsi/fsi-master-aspeed.c
@@ -542,7 +542,7 @@ static int fsi_master_aspeed_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
 		return rc;
 	}
 
-	aspeed = devm_kzalloc(&pdev->dev, sizeof(*aspeed), GFP_KERNEL);
+	aspeed = kzalloc(sizeof(*aspeed), GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!aspeed)
 		return -ENOMEM;
 
-- 
2.32.0



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