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* [PATCH] Fix a double free bug in rsi_91x_deinit
@ 2019-08-19 22:02 Hui Peng
  2019-08-31 18:18 ` Guenter Roeck
  2019-09-03 13:55 ` [PATCH] rsi: fix a double free bug in rsi_91x_deinit() Kalle Valo
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 10+ messages in thread
From: Hui Peng @ 2019-08-19 22:02 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: security
  Cc: Hui Peng, Mathias Payer, Kalle Valo, David S. Miller,
	linux-wireless, netdev, linux-kernel

`dev` (struct rsi_91x_usbdev *) field of adapter
(struct rsi_91x_usbdev *) is allocated  and initialized in
`rsi_init_usb_interface`. If any error is detected in information
read from the device side,  `rsi_init_usb_interface` will be
freed. However, in the higher level error handling code in
`rsi_probe`, if error is detected, `rsi_91x_deinit` is called
again, in which `dev` will be freed again, resulting double free.

This patch fixes the double free by removing the free operation on
`dev` in `rsi_init_usb_interface`, because `rsi_91x_deinit` is also
used in `rsi_disconnect`, in that code path, the `dev` field is not
 (and thus needs to be) freed.

This bug was found in v4.19, but is also present in the latest version
of kernel.

Reported-by: Hui Peng <benquike@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Mathias Payer <mathias.payer@nebelwelt.net>
Signed-off-by: Hui Peng <benquike@gmail.com>
---
 drivers/net/wireless/rsi/rsi_91x_usb.c | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/rsi/rsi_91x_usb.c b/drivers/net/wireless/rsi/rsi_91x_usb.c
index c0a163e40402..ac917227f708 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/rsi/rsi_91x_usb.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/rsi/rsi_91x_usb.c
@@ -640,7 +640,6 @@ static int rsi_init_usb_interface(struct rsi_hw *adapter,
 	kfree(rsi_dev->tx_buffer);
 
 fail_eps:
-	kfree(rsi_dev);
 
 	return status;
 }
-- 
2.22.1


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2019-08-19 22:02 [PATCH] Fix a double free bug in rsi_91x_deinit Hui Peng
2019-08-31 18:18 ` Guenter Roeck
2019-08-31 18:32   ` Hui Peng
2019-09-01  8:03   ` Kalle Valo
2019-09-01 14:08     ` Guenter Roeck
2019-09-02 18:47       ` Greg KH
2019-09-02 19:32         ` Guenter Roeck
2019-09-02 20:06           ` Greg KH
2019-09-03  0:35             ` Guenter Roeck
2019-09-03 13:55 ` [PATCH] rsi: fix a double free bug in rsi_91x_deinit() Kalle Valo

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