Re: [PATCH] RDMA/rtrs: Fix double free in alloc_clt

[Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>]

On Thu, Jan 20, 2022 at 10:37:14AM +0000, Miaoqian Lin wrote:
> Callback function rtrs_clt_dev_release() in put_device()
> calls kfree(clt); to free memory. We shouldn't call kfree(clt) again.
> 
> Fixes: 6a98d71daea1 ("RDMA/rtrs: client: main functionality")
> Signed-off-by: Miaoqian Lin <linmq006@gmail.com>
> ---
>  drivers/infiniband/ulp/rtrs/rtrs-clt.c | 5 ++++-
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/ulp/rtrs/rtrs-clt.c b/drivers/infiniband/ulp/rtrs/rtrs-clt.c
> index 7c3f98e57889..61723f48fbd4 100644
> --- a/drivers/infiniband/ulp/rtrs/rtrs-clt.c
> +++ b/drivers/infiniband/ulp/rtrs/rtrs-clt.c
> @@ -2741,7 +2741,7 @@ static struct rtrs_clt_sess *alloc_clt(const char *sessname, size_t paths_num,
>  	err = device_register(&clt->dev);
>  	if (err) {
>  		put_device(&clt->dev);
> -		goto err;
> +		goto err_free_cpu;
>  	}
>  
>  	clt->kobj_paths = kobject_create_and_add("paths", &clt->dev.kobj);
> @@ -2764,6 +2764,9 @@ static struct rtrs_clt_sess *alloc_clt(const char *sessname, size_t paths_num,
>  err:
>  	free_percpu(clt->pcpu_path);
>  	kfree(clt);
> +	clt->pcpu_path = NULL;

Like Jinpu said, it will crash, you are trying to access clt after kfree.

Thanks

> +err_free_cpu:
> +	free_percpu(clt->pcpu_path);
>  	return ERR_PTR(err);
>  }
>  
> -- 
> 2.17.1
>