[ldv-project] [PATCH] [media] au0828: fix double free in au0828_usb_probe()

[Shuah Khan]

On 04/22/2016 04:05 PM, Alexey Khoroshilov wrote:
> In case of failure au0828_v4l2_device_register() deallocates dev
> and returns error code to au0828_usb_probe(), which also
> calls kfree(dev) on a failure path.
> 
> The patch removes duplicated code from au0828_v4l2_device_register().
> 
> Found by Linux Driver Verification project (linuxtesting.org).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alexey Khoroshilov <khoroshilov at ispras.ru>

I sent a fix in for this a few weeks ago:

https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/3/28/453

thanks,
-- Shuah

> ---
>  drivers/media/usb/au0828/au0828-video.c | 4 ----
>  1 file changed, 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/media/usb/au0828/au0828-video.c b/drivers/media/usb/au0828/au0828-video.c
> index 32d7db96479c..7d0ec4cb248c 100644
> --- a/drivers/media/usb/au0828/au0828-video.c
> +++ b/drivers/media/usb/au0828/au0828-video.c
> @@ -679,8 +679,6 @@ int au0828_v4l2_device_register(struct usb_interface *interface,
>  	if (retval) {
>  		pr_err("%s() v4l2_device_register failed\n",
>  		       __func__);
> -		mutex_unlock(&dev->lock);
> -		kfree(dev);
>  		return retval;
>  	}
>  
> @@ -691,8 +689,6 @@ int au0828_v4l2_device_register(struct usb_interface *interface,
>  	if (retval) {
>  		pr_err("%s() v4l2_ctrl_handler_init failed\n",
>  		       __func__);
> -		mutex_unlock(&dev->lock);
> -		kfree(dev);
>  		return retval;
>  	}
>  	dev->v4l2_dev.ctrl_handler = &dev->v4l2_ctrl_hdl;
>