[PATCH 3.13.y-ckt 39/90] iio: core: Fix double free.

From: Kamal Mostafa
Date: Tue May 05 2015 - 17:14:58 EST


3.13.11-ckt20 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Martin Fuzzey <mfuzzey@xxxxxxxxxxx>

commit c1b03ab5e886760bdd38c9c7a27af149046ffe01 upstream.

When an error occurred during event registration memory was freed twice
resulting in kernel memory corruption and a crash in unrelated code.

The problem was caused by
iio_device_unregister_eventset()
iio_device_unregister_sysfs()

being called twice, once on the error path and then
again via iio_dev_release().

Fix this by making these two functions idempotent so they
may be called multiple times.

The problem was observed before applying
78b33216 iio:core: Handle error when mask type is not separate

Signed-off-by: Martin Fuzzey <mfuzzey@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Cameron <jic23@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/iio/industrialio-core.c | 5 +++--
drivers/iio/industrialio-event.c | 1 +
2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/iio/industrialio-core.c b/drivers/iio/industrialio-core.c
index 18f72e3..6e4858d 100644
--- a/drivers/iio/industrialio-core.c
+++ b/drivers/iio/industrialio-core.c
@@ -812,8 +812,7 @@ static int iio_device_add_channel_sysfs(struct iio_dev *indio_dev,
* @attr_list: List of IIO device attributes
*
* This function frees the memory allocated for each of the IIO device
- * attributes in the list. Note: if you want to reuse the list after calling
- * this function you have to reinitialize it using INIT_LIST_HEAD().
+ * attributes in the list.
*/
void iio_free_chan_devattr_list(struct list_head *attr_list)
{
@@ -821,6 +820,7 @@ void iio_free_chan_devattr_list(struct list_head *attr_list)

list_for_each_entry_safe(p, n, attr_list, l) {
kfree(p->dev_attr.attr.name);
+ list_del(&p->l);
kfree(p);
}
}
@@ -901,6 +901,7 @@ static void iio_device_unregister_sysfs(struct iio_dev *indio_dev)

iio_free_chan_devattr_list(&indio_dev->channel_attr_list);
kfree(indio_dev->chan_attr_group.attrs);
+ indio_dev->chan_attr_group.attrs = NULL;
}

static void iio_dev_release(struct device *device)
diff --git a/drivers/iio/industrialio-event.c b/drivers/iio/industrialio-event.c
index c531839..7c35689 100644
--- a/drivers/iio/industrialio-event.c
+++ b/drivers/iio/industrialio-event.c
@@ -596,6 +596,7 @@ int iio_device_register_eventset(struct iio_dev *indio_dev)
error_free_setup_event_lines:
iio_free_chan_devattr_list(&indio_dev->event_interface->dev_attr_list);
kfree(indio_dev->event_interface);
+ indio_dev->event_interface = NULL;
error_ret:

return ret;
--
1.9.1

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