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authorHui Peng <benquike@gmail.com>2019-08-19 18:02:29 -0400
committerKalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>2019-09-03 16:54:48 +0300
commit8b51dc7291473093c821195c4b6af85fadedbc2f (patch)
tree0916f8bcb99e67232241dd779e793b8a8e340c58
parent13fa451568ab9e8b3074ef741477c7938c713c42 (diff)
rsi: fix a double free bug in rsi_91x_deinit()
`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. Fixes CVE-2019-15504. Reported-by: Hui Peng <benquike@gmail.com> Reported-by: Mathias Payer <mathias.payer@nebelwelt.net> Signed-off-by: Hui Peng <benquike@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/wireless/rsi/rsi_91x_usb.c1
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/rsi/rsi_91x_usb.c b/drivers/net/wireless/rsi/rsi_91x_usb.c
index f5048d4b8cb6..760eaffeebd6 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/rsi/rsi_91x_usb.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/rsi/rsi_91x_usb.c
@@ -645,7 +645,6 @@ fail_rx:
kfree(rsi_dev->tx_buffer);
fail_eps:
- kfree(rsi_dev);
return status;
}