From: Sean Young <sean@mess.org>
Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2016 21:31:24 +0000 (-0200)
Subject: [media] lirc: fix error paths in lirc_cdev_add()
X-Git-Tag: v4.10-rc1~71^2^2~8
X-Git-Url: https://asedeno.scripts.mit.edu/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=b40769ee2ed09ed6c6da33b0cbdf423ff94f685b;p=linux.git

[media] lirc: fix error paths in lirc_cdev_add()

"c77d17c0 [media] lirc: use-after free" introduces two problems:
cdev_del() can be called with a NULL argument, and the kobject_put()
path will cause a double free.

Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Sean Young <sean@mess.org>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
---

diff --git a/drivers/media/rc/lirc_dev.c b/drivers/media/rc/lirc_dev.c
index d3039efb4e7c..3854809e8531 100644
--- a/drivers/media/rc/lirc_dev.c
+++ b/drivers/media/rc/lirc_dev.c
@@ -157,13 +157,13 @@ static const struct file_operations lirc_dev_fops = {
 
 static int lirc_cdev_add(struct irctl *ir)
 {
-	int retval = -ENOMEM;
 	struct lirc_driver *d = &ir->d;
 	struct cdev *cdev;
+	int retval;
 
 	cdev = cdev_alloc();
 	if (!cdev)
-		goto err_out;
+		return -ENOMEM;
 
 	if (d->fops) {
 		cdev->ops = d->fops;
@@ -177,10 +177,8 @@ static int lirc_cdev_add(struct irctl *ir)
 		goto err_out;
 
 	retval = cdev_add(cdev, MKDEV(MAJOR(lirc_base_dev), d->minor), 1);
-	if (retval) {
-		kobject_put(&cdev->kobj);
+	if (retval)
 		goto err_out;
-	}
 
 	ir->cdev = cdev;