[PATCH 3.19 095/177] USB: serial: fix potential use-after-free after failed probe

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2015-03-16T14:16:51Z

From: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>

commit 07fdfc5e9f1c966be8722e8fa927e5ea140df5ce upstream.

Fix return value in probe error path, which could end up returning
success (0) on errors. This could in turn lead to use-after-free or
double free (e.g. in port_remove) when the port device is removed.

Fixes: c706ebdfc895 ("USB: usb-serial: call port_probe and port_remove
at the right times")
Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
drivers/usb/serial/bus.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/drivers/usb/serial/bus.c
+++ b/drivers/usb/serial/bus.c
@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ static int usb_serial_device_probe(struc
retval = device_create_file(dev, &dev_attr_port_number);
if (retval) {
if (driver->port_remove)
- retval = driver->port_remove(port);
+ driver->port_remove(port);
goto exit_with_autopm;
}