[SRU][O][PATCH 1/1] mtd: rawnand: fix double free in atmel_pmecc_create_user()

Massimiliano Pellizzer massimiliano.pellizzer at canonical.com
Tue Feb 4 11:00:49 UTC 2025


From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter at linaro.org>

The "user" pointer was converted from being allocated with kzalloc() to
being allocated by devm_kzalloc().  Calling kfree(user) will lead to a
double free.

Fixes: 6d734f1bfc33 ("mtd: rawnand: atmel: Fix possible memory leak")
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter at linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal at bootlin.com>
(cherry picked from commit d8e4771f99c0400a1873235704b28bb803c83d17)
CVE-2024-56766
Signed-off-by: Massimiliano Pellizzer <massimiliano.pellizzer at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/mtd/nand/raw/atmel/pmecc.c | 4 +---
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/mtd/nand/raw/atmel/pmecc.c b/drivers/mtd/nand/raw/atmel/pmecc.c
index a22aab4ed4e8a..3c7dee1be21df 100644
--- a/drivers/mtd/nand/raw/atmel/pmecc.c
+++ b/drivers/mtd/nand/raw/atmel/pmecc.c
@@ -380,10 +380,8 @@ atmel_pmecc_create_user(struct atmel_pmecc *pmecc,
 	user->delta = user->dmu + req->ecc.strength + 1;
 
 	gf_tables = atmel_pmecc_get_gf_tables(req);
-	if (IS_ERR(gf_tables)) {
-		kfree(user);
+	if (IS_ERR(gf_tables))
 		return ERR_CAST(gf_tables);
-	}
 
 	user->gf_tables = gf_tables;
 
-- 
2.43.0




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