Re: [PATCH] ISP1704 USB Charger: Fix use-after-free error in isp1704_charger_probe()

[Marek Vasut <marex@denx.de>]

Dear Jesper Juhl,

> In isp1704_charger_probe() at the 'fail0:' label we kfree(isp) and
> then subsequently call isp1704_charger_set_power(isp, 0). That's a
> problem since isp1704_charger_set_power() dereferences the pointer it
> is passed as its first argument, which is 'isp', which we already
> freed.
> 
> Fixed by simply swapping the order of the two calls so that we only
> kfree() *after* the call to isp1704_charger_set_power().
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jj@chaosbits.net>
> ---
>  drivers/power/isp1704_charger.c |    4 +---
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/power/isp1704_charger.c
> b/drivers/power/isp1704_charger.c index 39eb50f..8a610da 100644
> --- a/drivers/power/isp1704_charger.c
> +++ b/drivers/power/isp1704_charger.c
> @@ -476,11 +476,9 @@ fail2:
>  fail1:
>  	usb_put_transceiver(isp->phy);
>  fail0:
> -	kfree(isp);
> -
>  	dev_err(&pdev->dev, "failed to register isp1704 with error %d\n", ret);
> -
>  	isp1704_charger_set_power(isp, 0);
> +	kfree(isp);

Use devm_kzalloc() and be done with all this goo?

>  	return ret;
>  }

Best regards,
Marek Vasut