Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 26 Feb 2018 12:22:59 -0600 | From | Bjorn Helgaas <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] pci: endpoint: Fix double free in pci_epf_create() |
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On Mon, Feb 26, 2018 at 06:16:15PM +0100, Rolf Evers-Fischer wrote: > This is version 2 of a patchset to avoid double free in function > 'pci_epf_create()'. > > When I accidentally created a new endpoint device with an empty name, > the kernel warned about "attempted to be registered with empty name!" > and crashed afterwards. > > It turned out that the crash was not caused by the 'device_add()' > function itself, but by a double kfree of 'epf->name' and 'epf'. > > The first patch just simplifies the code, while the second patch > fixes the problem. > > Changes in v2: > - Based on feedback from Lorenzo, Andy and Kishon (thanks!) > - Change IDs removed > - First patch completely reworked in order to eliminate the > need for the second 'kstrdup' allocation and the 'kfree' of > the first allocation. > It was tested with name="pci_epf_test.0" and name="pci_epb": > The 'epf->name' was "pci_epf_test" or "pci_epb" (=unchanged). > > Rolf Evers-Fischer (2): > pci: endpoint: Simplify name allocation for epf device > pci: endpoint: Fix kernel panic after put_device()
$ git log --oneline --no-merges drivers/pci/endpoint/ fc41df28f89e PCI: endpoint: Fix EPF device name to support multi-function devices 4494738de0d9 PCI: endpoint: Add the function number as argument to EPC ops b330104fa76d PCI: endpoint: Use EPC's device in dma_alloc_coherent()/dma_free_coherent() 35ad61921f49 PCI: endpoint: Fix find_first_zero_bit() usage 0c47cd7a9b6c PCI: endpoint: Populate func_no before calling pci_epc_add_epf() ...
Please make yours match.
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