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* Re: [PATCH] PCI: endpoint: Fix a double free in __pci_epc_create()
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@ 2025-01-03 10:28 ` Markus Elfring
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From: Markus Elfring @ 2025-01-03 10:28 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: make_ruc2021, linux-pci, Bjorn Helgaas, Joao Pinto,
	Kishon Vijay Abraham I, Krzysztof Wilczyński,
	Lorenzo Pieralisi, Manivannan Sadhasivam
  Cc: stable, LKML, kernel-janitors

> The put_device(&epc->dev) call will trigger pci_epc_release() which
> frees "epc" so the kfree(epc) on the next line is a double free.

See also:
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst?h=v6.13-rc5#n94


> Found by code review.

Would you become interested to check how many similar control flows
can still be detected by the means of automated advanced source code analyses?

Regards,
Markus

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