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* drivers/net/ethernet/intel/idpf/idpf_idc.c:93 idpf_plug_core_aux_dev() error: dereferencing freed memory 'adev' (line 75)
@ 2026-05-14  8:47 Dan Carpenter
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From: Dan Carpenter @ 2026-05-14  8:47 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: oe-kbuild, Joshua Hay
  Cc: lkp, oe-kbuild-all, linux-kernel, Tony Nguyen, Madhu Chittim,
	Tatyana Nikolova

tree:   https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git master
head:   e1914add2799225a87502051415fc5c32aeb02ae
commit: f4312e6bfa2a98e94dacc75f96f916b76bdf4259 idpf: implement core RDMA auxiliary dev create, init, and destroy
config: i386-randconfig-141-20260514 (https://download.01.org/0day-ci/archive/20260514/202605141659.ITAp29HS-lkp@intel.com/config)
compiler: clang version 20.1.8 (https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project 87f0227cb60147a26a1eeb4fb06e3b505e9c7261)
smatch: v0.5.0-9185-gbcc58b9c

If you fix the issue in a separate patch/commit (i.e. not just a new version of
the same patch/commit), kindly add following tags
| Fixes: f4312e6bfa2a ("idpf: implement core RDMA auxiliary dev create, init, and destroy")
| Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com>
| Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
| Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/r/202605141659.ITAp29HS-lkp@intel.com/

smatch warnings:
drivers/net/ethernet/intel/idpf/idpf_idc.c:93 idpf_plug_core_aux_dev() error: dereferencing freed memory 'adev' (line 75)

vim +/adev +93 drivers/net/ethernet/intel/idpf/idpf_idc.c

f4312e6bfa2a98 Joshua Hay 2025-07-08   54  static int idpf_plug_core_aux_dev(struct iidc_rdma_core_dev_info *cdev_info)
f4312e6bfa2a98 Joshua Hay 2025-07-08   55  {
f4312e6bfa2a98 Joshua Hay 2025-07-08   56  	struct iidc_rdma_core_auxiliary_dev *iadev;
f4312e6bfa2a98 Joshua Hay 2025-07-08   57  	char name[IDPF_IDC_MAX_ADEV_NAME_LEN];
f4312e6bfa2a98 Joshua Hay 2025-07-08   58  	struct auxiliary_device *adev;
f4312e6bfa2a98 Joshua Hay 2025-07-08   59  	int ret;
f4312e6bfa2a98 Joshua Hay 2025-07-08   60  
f4312e6bfa2a98 Joshua Hay 2025-07-08   61  	iadev = kzalloc(sizeof(*iadev), GFP_KERNEL);
f4312e6bfa2a98 Joshua Hay 2025-07-08   62  	if (!iadev)
f4312e6bfa2a98 Joshua Hay 2025-07-08   63  		return -ENOMEM;
f4312e6bfa2a98 Joshua Hay 2025-07-08   64  
f4312e6bfa2a98 Joshua Hay 2025-07-08   65  	adev = &iadev->adev;
f4312e6bfa2a98 Joshua Hay 2025-07-08   66  	cdev_info->adev = adev;
f4312e6bfa2a98 Joshua Hay 2025-07-08   67  	iadev->cdev_info = cdev_info;
f4312e6bfa2a98 Joshua Hay 2025-07-08   68  
f4312e6bfa2a98 Joshua Hay 2025-07-08   69  	ret = ida_alloc(&idpf_idc_ida, GFP_KERNEL);
f4312e6bfa2a98 Joshua Hay 2025-07-08   70  	if (ret < 0) {
f4312e6bfa2a98 Joshua Hay 2025-07-08   71  		pr_err("failed to allocate unique device ID for Auxiliary driver\n");
f4312e6bfa2a98 Joshua Hay 2025-07-08   72  		goto err_ida_alloc;
f4312e6bfa2a98 Joshua Hay 2025-07-08   73  	}
f4312e6bfa2a98 Joshua Hay 2025-07-08   74  	adev->id = ret;
f4312e6bfa2a98 Joshua Hay 2025-07-08  @75  	adev->dev.release = idpf_core_adev_release;
f4312e6bfa2a98 Joshua Hay 2025-07-08   76  	adev->dev.parent = &cdev_info->pdev->dev;
f4312e6bfa2a98 Joshua Hay 2025-07-08   77  	sprintf(name, "%04x.rdma.core", cdev_info->pdev->vendor);
f4312e6bfa2a98 Joshua Hay 2025-07-08   78  	adev->name = name;
f4312e6bfa2a98 Joshua Hay 2025-07-08   79  
f4312e6bfa2a98 Joshua Hay 2025-07-08   80  	ret = auxiliary_device_init(adev);
f4312e6bfa2a98 Joshua Hay 2025-07-08   81  	if (ret)
f4312e6bfa2a98 Joshua Hay 2025-07-08   82  		goto err_aux_dev_init;
f4312e6bfa2a98 Joshua Hay 2025-07-08   83  
f4312e6bfa2a98 Joshua Hay 2025-07-08   84  	ret = auxiliary_device_add(adev);
f4312e6bfa2a98 Joshua Hay 2025-07-08   85  	if (ret)
f4312e6bfa2a98 Joshua Hay 2025-07-08   86  		goto err_aux_dev_add;
f4312e6bfa2a98 Joshua Hay 2025-07-08   87  
f4312e6bfa2a98 Joshua Hay 2025-07-08   88  	return 0;
f4312e6bfa2a98 Joshua Hay 2025-07-08   89  
f4312e6bfa2a98 Joshua Hay 2025-07-08   90  err_aux_dev_add:
f4312e6bfa2a98 Joshua Hay 2025-07-08   91  	auxiliary_device_uninit(adev);
f4312e6bfa2a98 Joshua Hay 2025-07-08   92  err_aux_dev_init:
f4312e6bfa2a98 Joshua Hay 2025-07-08  @93  	ida_free(&idpf_idc_ida, adev->id);
                                                                        ^^^^^^^^^
I could have sworn I saw patches to fix this use after free months ago
but it's still a bug in net-next.  idpf_core_adev_release() frees iadev
and adev is a to inside iadev.

f4312e6bfa2a98 Joshua Hay 2025-07-08   94  err_ida_alloc:
f4312e6bfa2a98 Joshua Hay 2025-07-08   95  	cdev_info->adev = NULL;
f4312e6bfa2a98 Joshua Hay 2025-07-08   96  	kfree(iadev);
f4312e6bfa2a98 Joshua Hay 2025-07-08   97  
f4312e6bfa2a98 Joshua Hay 2025-07-08   98  	return ret;
f4312e6bfa2a98 Joshua Hay 2025-07-08   99  }

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