[PATCH 5.17 0831/1126] lib/test: use after free in register_test_dev_kmod()

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2022-04-05T08:35:49Z

From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>

[ Upstream commit dc0ce6cc4b133f5f2beb8b47dacae13a7d283c2c ]

The "test_dev" pointer is freed but then returned to the caller.

Fixes: d9c6a72d6fa2 ("kmod: add test driver to stress test the module loader")
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
lib/test_kmod.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/lib/test_kmod.c b/lib/test_kmod.c
index ce1589391413..cb800b1d0d99 100644
--- a/lib/test_kmod.c
+++ b/lib/test_kmod.c
@@ -1149,6 +1149,7 @@ static struct kmod_test_device *register_test_dev_kmod(void)
if (ret) {
pr_err("could not register misc device: %d\n", ret);
free_test_dev_kmod(test_dev);
+ test_dev = NULL;
goto out;
}

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2.34.1