From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , stable@vger.kernel.org, Dan Carpenter Subject: [PATCH 4.9 41/60] misc: mic: double free on ioctl error path Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2017 23:17:35 +0800 Message-Id: <20170619151646.167720745@linuxfoundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20170619151644.680979056@linuxfoundation.org> References: <20170619151644.680979056@linuxfoundation.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 4.9-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Dan Carpenter commit 816c9311f1144a03da1fdc4feb2f6b0d3299fca0 upstream. This function only has one caller. Freeing "vdev" here leads to a use after free bug. There are several other error paths in this function but this is the only one which frees "vdev". It looks like the kfree() can be safely removed. Fixes: 61e9c905df78 ("misc: mic: Enable VOP host side functionality") Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- drivers/misc/mic/vop/vop_vringh.c | 1 - 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-) --- a/drivers/misc/mic/vop/vop_vringh.c +++ b/drivers/misc/mic/vop/vop_vringh.c @@ -292,7 +292,6 @@ static int vop_virtio_add_device(struct if (ret) { dev_err(vop_dev(vdev), "%s %d err %d\n", __func__, __LINE__, ret); - kfree(vdev); return ret; }