[PATCH 6.1.y 2/2] mtd: docg3: fix use-after-free in docg3_release()

Sasha Levin
2026-05-01T23:41:40Z

From: James Kim <james010kim@gmail.com>

[ Upstream commit ca19808bc6fac7e29420d8508df569b346b3e339 ]

In docg3_release(), the docg3 pointer is obtained from
cascade->floors[0]->priv before the loop that calls
doc_release_device() on each floor. doc_release_device() frees the
docg3 struct via kfree(docg3) at line 1881. After the loop,
docg3->cascade->bch dereferences the already-freed pointer.

Fix this by accessing cascade->bch directly, which is equivalent
since docg3->cascade points back to the same cascade struct, and
is already available as a local variable. This also removes the
now-unused docg3 local variable.

Fixes: c8ae3f744ddc ("lib/bch: Rework a little bit the exported function names")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: James Kim <james010kim@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@bootlin.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
drivers/mtd/devices/docg3.c | 3 +--
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/mtd/devices/docg3.c b/drivers/mtd/devices/docg3.c
index 8cb25cfd9c10a..2f82bc7c07931 100644
--- a/drivers/mtd/devices/docg3.c
+++ b/drivers/mtd/devices/docg3.c
@@ -2049,7 +2049,6 @@ static int __init docg3_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
static void docg3_release(struct platform_device *pdev)
{
struct docg3_cascade *cascade = platform_get_drvdata(pdev);
- struct docg3 *docg3 = cascade->floors[0]->priv;
int floor;

doc_unregister_sysfs(pdev, cascade);
@@ -2057,7 +2056,7 @@ static void docg3_release(struct platform_device *pdev)
if (cascade->floors[floor])
doc_release_device(cascade->floors[floor]);

- bch_free(docg3->cascade->bch);
+ bch_free(cascade->bch);
}

#ifdef CONFIG_OF
--
2.53.0