From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: From: Sasha Levin To: stable@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Pan Bian , "David S . Miller" , Sasha Levin , netdev@vger.kernel.org Subject: [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.9 33/45] net: hisilicon: remove unexpected free_netdev Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2018 04:46:54 -0500 Message-Id: <20181205094706.7225-33-sashal@kernel.org> In-Reply-To: <20181205094706.7225-1-sashal@kernel.org> References: <20181205094706.7225-1-sashal@kernel.org> List-ID: From: Pan Bian [ Upstream commit c758940158bf29fe14e9d0f89d5848f227b48134 ] The net device ndev is freed via free_netdev when failing to register the device. The control flow then jumps to the error handling code block. ndev is used and freed again. Resulting in a use-after-free bug. Signed-off-by: Pan Bian Signed-off-by: David S. Miller Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin --- drivers/net/ethernet/hisilicon/hip04_eth.c | 4 +--- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/hisilicon/hip04_eth.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/hisilicon/hip04_eth.c index 39778892b3b3..b5d18d95d7b9 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/hisilicon/hip04_eth.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/hisilicon/hip04_eth.c @@ -922,10 +922,8 @@ static int hip04_mac_probe(struct platform_device *pdev) } ret = register_netdev(ndev); - if (ret) { - free_netdev(ndev); + if (ret) goto alloc_fail; - } return 0; -- 2.17.1