Commit 68d35c7b authored Jun 15, 2015 by Sudip Mukherjee Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman Jul 22, 2015

parport: fix freeing freed memory

After the reference count becomes 0 when put_device() is called, it will
execute the release callback where we are freeing all the allocated
memory associated with the device. So if we just continue on the error
path then we are again freeing devname and trying to dereference par_dev
which has already been free-ed in the release callback.

Signed-off-by: Sudip Mukherjee <sudip@vectorindia.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

parent 23c40591

drivers/parport/share.c

+4 −4

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -892,8 +892,10 @@ parport_register_dev_model(struct parport port, const char name,
		par_dev->dev.release = free_pardevice;
		par_dev->devmodel = true;
		ret = device_register(&par_dev->dev);
		if (ret)
		goto err_put_dev;
		if (ret) {
		put_device(&par_dev->dev);
		goto err_put_port;
		}

		/* Chain this onto the list */
		par_dev->prev = NULL;
		@@ -940,8 +942,6 @@ parport_register_dev_model(struct parport port, const char name,

		return par_dev;

		err_put_dev:
		put_device(&par_dev->dev);
		err_free_devname:
		kfree(devname);
		err_free_par_dev:

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