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From: Dipendra Khadka <kdipendra88@gmail.com>
To: heikki.krogerus@linux.intel.com, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
Cc: Dipendra Khadka <kdipendra88@gmail.com>,
	linux-usb@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] Fix  dereferencing freed memory 'fw'
Date: Sun, 22 Sep 2024 10:52:11 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20240922105212.28099-1-kdipendra88@gmail.com> (raw)

smatch reported dereferencing freed memory as below:
'''
drivers/usb/typec/tipd/core.c:1196 tps6598x_apply_patch() error: dereferencing freed memory 'fw'
'''

Invoking release_firware(fw) just after checking ret.

Signed-off-by: Dipendra Khadka <kdipendra88@gmail.com>
---
 drivers/usb/typec/tipd/core.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/usb/typec/tipd/core.c b/drivers/usb/typec/tipd/core.c
index ea768b19a7f1..eb5596e3406a 100644
--- a/drivers/usb/typec/tipd/core.c
+++ b/drivers/usb/typec/tipd/core.c
@@ -1191,11 +1191,11 @@ static int tps6598x_apply_patch(struct tps6598x *tps)
 	dev_info(tps->dev, "Firmware update succeeded\n");
 
 release_fw:
-	release_firmware(fw);
 	if (ret) {
 		dev_err(tps->dev, "Failed to write patch %s of %zu bytes\n",
 			firmware_name, fw->size);
 	}
+	release_firmware(fw);
 
 	return ret;
 };
-- 
2.43.0


             reply	other threads:[~2024-09-22 10:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-09-22 10:52 Dipendra Khadka [this message]
2024-09-23  8:20 ` [PATCH] Fix dereferencing freed memory 'fw' Heikki Krogerus
2024-09-23  8:35 ` Heikki Krogerus
2024-09-23  8:45   ` Dipendra Khadka

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