[PATCH] regulator: fix use after free issue

From: Wen Yang
Date: Sun Nov 24 2019 - 09:58:56 EST


This is caused by dereferencing 'rdev' after put_device() in
the _regulator_get()/_regulator_put() functions.
This patch just moves the put_device() down a bit to avoid the
issue.

Signed-off-by: Wen Yang <wenyang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Liam Girdwood <lgirdwood@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Mark Brown <broonie@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
---
drivers/regulator/core.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/regulator/core.c b/drivers/regulator/core.c
index 679ad3d..09a3550 100644
--- a/drivers/regulator/core.c
+++ b/drivers/regulator/core.c
@@ -1938,8 +1938,8 @@ struct regulator *_regulator_get(struct device *dev, const char *id,
regulator = create_regulator(rdev, dev, id);
if (regulator == NULL) {
regulator = ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
- put_device(&rdev->dev);
module_put(rdev->owner);
+ put_device(&rdev->dev);
return regulator;
}

@@ -2063,13 +2063,13 @@ static void _regulator_put(struct regulator *regulator)

rdev->open_count--;
rdev->exclusive = 0;
- put_device(&rdev->dev);
regulator_unlock(rdev);

kfree_const(regulator->supply_name);
kfree(regulator);

module_put(rdev->owner);
+ put_device(&rdev->dev);
}

/**
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