From: Hui Peng <benquike@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2019 18:02:29 -0400
Subject: Fix a double free bug in rsi_91x_deinit
References: bnc#1147116 CVE-2019-15504
Patch-mainline: Submitted, http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/1149623/
`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>
Acked-by: Benjamin Poirier <bpoirier@suse.com>
---
drivers/net/wireless/rsi/rsi_91x_usb.c | 1 -
1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
--- 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;
}