patch "staging: comedi: ni_usb6501: Fix possible double-free of ->usb_rx_buf" added to staging-linus

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    staging: comedi: ni_usb6501: Fix possible double-free of ->usb_rx_buf

to my staging git tree which can be found at
    git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/staging.git
in the staging-linus branch.

The patch will show up in the next release of the linux-next tree
(usually sometime within the next 24 hours during the week.)

The patch will hopefully also be merged in Linus's tree for the
next -rc kernel release.

If you have any questions about this process, please let me know.


From af4b54a2e5ba18259ff9aac445bf546dd60d037e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ian Abbott <abbotti@mev.co.uk>
Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2019 12:43:02 +0100
Subject: staging: comedi: ni_usb6501: Fix possible double-free of ->usb_rx_buf

`ni6501_alloc_usb_buffers()` is called from `ni6501_auto_attach()` to
allocate RX and TX buffers for USB transfers.  It allocates
`devpriv->usb_rx_buf` followed by `devpriv->usb_tx_buf`.  If the
allocation of `devpriv->usb_tx_buf` fails, it frees
`devpriv->usb_rx_buf`, leaving the pointer set dangling, and returns an
error.  Later, `ni6501_detach()` will be called from the core comedi
module code to clean up.  `ni6501_detach()` also frees both
`devpriv->usb_rx_buf` and `devpriv->usb_tx_buf`, but
`devpriv->usb_rx_buf` may have already beed freed, leading to a
double-free error.  Fix it bu removing the call to
`kfree(devpriv->usb_rx_buf)` from `ni6501_alloc_usb_buffers()`, relying
on `ni6501_detach()` to free the memory.

Signed-off-by: Ian Abbott <abbotti@mev.co.uk>
Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/ni_usb6501.c | 4 +---
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/ni_usb6501.c b/drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/ni_usb6501.c
index ed5e42655821..1bb1cb651349 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/ni_usb6501.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/ni_usb6501.c
@@ -463,10 +463,8 @@ static int ni6501_alloc_usb_buffers(struct comedi_device *dev)
 
 	size = usb_endpoint_maxp(devpriv->ep_tx);
 	devpriv->usb_tx_buf = kzalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL);
-	if (!devpriv->usb_tx_buf) {
-		kfree(devpriv->usb_rx_buf);
+	if (!devpriv->usb_tx_buf)
 		return -ENOMEM;
-	}
 
 	return 0;
 }
-- 
2.21.0