RE: [PATCH] drm/of: free the iterator object on failure

[Biju Das <biju.das.jz@bp.renesas.com>]

+ Pavel

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steven Price <steven.price@arm.com>
> Sent: 12 July 2021 16:58
> To: Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch>; David Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>;
> Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@linux.intel.com>; Maxime Ripard
> <mripard@kernel.org>; Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
> Cc: Steven Price <steven.price@arm.com>; dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org;
> linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; Biju Das <biju.das.jz@bp.renesas.com>;
> Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
> Subject: [PATCH] drm/of: free the iterator object on failure
> 
> When bailing out due to the sanity check the iterator value needs to be
> freed because the early return prevents for_each_child_of_node() from
> doing the dereference itself.
> 
> Fixes: 4ee48cc5586b ("drm: of: Fix double-free bug")
> Signed-off-by: Steven Price <steven.price@arm.com>
> ---
>  drivers/gpu/drm/drm_of.c | 4 +++-
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> Daniel's email[1] made me take a look at this function and it appears that
> for_each_child_of_node()'s interface had caused a bad bug fix due to the
> hidden reference counting in the iterator.
> 
> [1]
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> 
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_of.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_of.c index
> 197c57477344..997b8827fed2 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_of.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_of.c
> @@ -331,8 +331,10 @@ static int drm_of_lvds_get_remote_pixels_type(
>  		 * configurations by passing the endpoints explicitly to
>  		 * drm_of_lvds_get_dual_link_pixel_order().
>  		 */
> -		if (!current_pt || pixels_type != current_pt)
> +		if (!current_pt || pixels_type != current_pt) {
> +			of_node_put(endpoint);
>  			return -EINVAL;
> +		}
>  	}
> 
>  	return pixels_type;
> --
> 2.20.1