From af4b54a2e5ba18259ff9aac445bf546dd60d037e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ian Abbott Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2019 12:43:02 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] staging: comedi: ni_usb6501: Fix possible double-free of ->usb_rx_buf `ni6501_alloc_usb_buffers()` is called from `ni6501_auto_attach()` to allocate RX and TX buffers for USB transfers. It allocates `devpriv->usb_rx_buf` followed by `devpriv->usb_tx_buf`. If the allocation of `devpriv->usb_tx_buf` fails, it frees `devpriv->usb_rx_buf`, leaving the pointer set dangling, and returns an error. Later, `ni6501_detach()` will be called from the core comedi module code to clean up. `ni6501_detach()` also frees both `devpriv->usb_rx_buf` and `devpriv->usb_tx_buf`, but `devpriv->usb_rx_buf` may have already beed freed, leading to a double-free error. Fix it bu removing the call to `kfree(devpriv->usb_rx_buf)` from `ni6501_alloc_usb_buffers()`, relying on `ni6501_detach()` to free the memory. Signed-off-by: Ian Abbott Cc: stable Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/ni_usb6501.c | 4 +--- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/ni_usb6501.c b/drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/ni_usb6501.c index ed5e42655821..1bb1cb651349 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/ni_usb6501.c +++ b/drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/ni_usb6501.c @@ -463,10 +463,8 @@ static int ni6501_alloc_usb_buffers(struct comedi_device *dev) size = usb_endpoint_maxp(devpriv->ep_tx); devpriv->usb_tx_buf = kzalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL); - if (!devpriv->usb_tx_buf) { - kfree(devpriv->usb_rx_buf); + if (!devpriv->usb_tx_buf) return -ENOMEM; - } return 0; } -- 2.30.2