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From: Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>
To: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@linaro.org>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@kernel.org>,
	linux-serial@vger.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] serial: core: don't kfree device managed data
Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2023 16:37:49 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20230606133749.GK56720@atomide.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ZH8xwKuI9WqRUu5H@smile.fi.intel.com>

* Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com> [230606 13:16]:
> On Tue, Jun 06, 2023 at 11:26:25AM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> > The put_device() function will call serial_base_ctrl_release() or
> > serial_base_port_release() so these kfrees() are a double free bug.
> 
> ...
> 
> These labels are also called without device being even added.
> So, this is not good enough as far as I can tell.

I guess you mean the possibe error returned from the call to
serial_base_device_init()?

If serial_base_device_init() fails, we return error and end up doing
the put_device().

We have serial_base_device_init() call device_initialize(), is that
not enough for put_device()?

Regards,

Tony

  reply	other threads:[~2023-06-06 13:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-06-06  8:26 [PATCH] serial: core: don't kfree device managed data Dan Carpenter
2023-06-06 12:28 ` Tony Lindgren
2023-06-06 13:17   ` Andy Shevchenko
2023-06-06 16:23     ` Tony Lindgren
2023-06-06 13:16 ` Andy Shevchenko
2023-06-06 13:37   ` Tony Lindgren [this message]
2023-06-06 14:54     ` Andy Shevchenko
2023-06-06 16:21       ` Tony Lindgren
2023-06-06 13:51   ` Dan Carpenter
2023-06-06 14:55     ` Andy Shevchenko
2023-06-06 15:01       ` Dan Carpenter
2023-06-06 16:18         ` Tony Lindgren
2023-06-14  4:46           ` Tony Lindgren
2023-06-14  6:37             ` Dan Carpenter

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