[PATCH 5.4 169/320] HSI: core: Fix return freed object in hsi_new_client

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2022-01-24T20:17:54Z

From: Chengfeng Ye <cyeaa@connect.ust.hk>

[ Upstream commit a1ee1c08fcd5af03187dcd41dcab12fd5b379555 ]

cl is freed on error of calling device_register, but this
object is return later, which will cause uaf issue. Fix it
by return NULL on error.

Signed-off-by: Chengfeng Ye <cyeaa@connect.ust.hk>
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Reichel <sebastian.reichel@collabora.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
drivers/hsi/hsi_core.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/drivers/hsi/hsi_core.c b/drivers/hsi/hsi_core.c
index a5f92e2889cb8..a330f58d45fc6 100644
--- a/drivers/hsi/hsi_core.c
+++ b/drivers/hsi/hsi_core.c
@@ -102,6 +102,7 @@ struct hsi_client *hsi_new_client(struct hsi_port *port,
if (device_register(&cl->device) < 0) {
pr_err("hsi: failed to register client: %s\n", info->name);
put_device(&cl->device);
+ goto err;
}

return cl;
--
2.34.1