Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | From | Kefeng Wang <> | Subject | [PATCH v2] hwtracing: stm: fix vfree() nonexistent vm_area | Date | Mon, 20 May 2019 17:39:33 +0800 |
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If device_add() in stm_register_device() fails, stm_device_release() is called by put_device() to free stm, free stm again on err_device path will trigger following warning,
Trying to vfree() nonexistent vm area (0000000054b5e7bc) WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 6004 at mm/vmalloc.c:1595 __vunmap+0x72/0x480 mm/vmalloc.c:1594 Kernel panic - not syncing: panic_on_warn set ... CPU: 0 PID: 6004 Comm: syz-executor.0 Tainted: G C 5.1.0+ #28 Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.10.2-1ubuntu1 04/01/2014 Call Trace: __vfree+0x2a/0x80 mm/vmalloc.c:1658 _vfree+0x49/0x70 mm/vmalloc.c:1688 stm_register_device+0x295/0x330 [stm_core] dummy_stm_init+0xfe/0x1e0 [dummy_stm] do_one_initcall+0xb9/0x3b5 init/main.c:914 do_init_module+0xe0/0x330 kernel/module.c:3468 load_module+0x38eb/0x4270 kernel/module.c:3819 __do_sys_finit_module+0x162/0x190 kernel/module.c:3909 do_syscall_64+0x72/0x2a0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:298 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x49/0xbe
Change error handling path and only free stm once if device_add() fails to fix it.
Reported-by: Hulk Robot <hulkci@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com> --- drivers/hwtracing/stm/core.c | 8 ++++---- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/hwtracing/stm/core.c b/drivers/hwtracing/stm/core.c index e55b902560de..afb7999eb863 100644 --- a/drivers/hwtracing/stm/core.c +++ b/drivers/hwtracing/stm/core.c @@ -885,8 +885,10 @@ int stm_register_device(struct device *parent, struct stm_data *stm_data, return -ENOMEM; stm->major = register_chrdev(0, stm_data->name, &stm_fops); - if (stm->major < 0) - goto err_free; + if (stm->major < 0) { + vfree(stm); + return stm->major; + } device_initialize(&stm->dev); stm->dev.devt = MKDEV(stm->major, 0); @@ -932,8 +934,6 @@ int stm_register_device(struct device *parent, struct stm_data *stm_data, /* matches device_initialize() above */ put_device(&stm->dev); -err_free: - vfree(stm); return err; } -- 2.20.1
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