This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

staging: comedi: vmk80xx: Fix possible double-free of ->usb_rx_buf

to my staging git tree which can be found at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/staging.git in the staging-linus branch.

The patch will show up in the next release of the linux-next tree (usually sometime within the next 24 hours during the week.)

The patch will hopefully also be merged in Linus's tree for the next -rc kernel release.

If you have any questions about this process, please let me know.

From 663d294b4768bfd89e529e069bffa544a830b5bf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001

From: Ian Abbott abbotti@mev.co.uk Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2019 12:52:30 +0100 Subject: staging: comedi: vmk80xx: Fix possible double-free of ->usb_rx_buf

`vmk80xx_alloc_usb_buffers()` is called from `vmk80xx_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, `vmk80xx_detach()` will be called from the core comedi module code to clean up. `vmk80xx_detach()` also frees both `devpriv->usb_rx_buf` and `devpriv->usb_tx_buf`, but `devpriv->usb_rx_buf` may have already been freed, leading to a double-free error. Fix it by removing the call to `kfree(devpriv->usb_rx_buf)` from `vmk80xx_alloc_usb_buffers()`, relying on `vmk80xx_detach()` to free the memory.

Signed-off-by: Ian Abbott abbotti@mev.co.uk Cc: stable stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/vmk80xx.c | 4 +--- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/vmk80xx.c b/drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/vmk80xx.c index b035d662390b..65dc6c51037e 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/vmk80xx.c +++ b/drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/vmk80xx.c @@ -682,10 +682,8 @@ static int vmk80xx_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; }