[PATCH 6.19 264/311] reset: gpio: fix double free in reset_add_gpio_aux_device() error path

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-04-08T19:01:08Z

From: Guangshuo Li <lgs201920130244@gmail.com>

commit fbffb8c7c7bb4d38e9f65e0bee446685011de5d8 upstream.

When __auxiliary_device_add() fails, reset_add_gpio_aux_device()
calls auxiliary_device_uninit(adev).

The device release callback reset_gpio_aux_device_release() frees
adev, but the current error path then calls kfree(adev) again,
causing a double free.

Keep kfree(adev) for the auxiliary_device_init() failure path, but
avoid freeing adev after auxiliary_device_uninit().

Fixes: 5fc4e4cf7a22 ("reset: gpio: use software nodes to setup the GPIO lookup")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Guangshuo Li <lgs201920130244@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Bartosz Golaszewski <bartosz.golaszewski@oss.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: Philipp Zabel <p.zabel@pengutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
drivers/reset/core.c | 1 -
1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/reset/core.c b/drivers/reset/core.c
index fceec45c8afc..352c2360603b 100644
--- a/drivers/reset/core.c
+++ b/drivers/reset/core.c
@@ -856,7 +856,6 @@ static int reset_add_gpio_aux_device(struct device *parent,
ret = __auxiliary_device_add(adev, "reset");
if (ret) {
auxiliary_device_uninit(adev);
- kfree(adev);
return ret;
}

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2.53.0