Patch "driver core: bus: Fix a potential double free" has been added to the 3.18-stable tree

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

driver core: bus: Fix a potential double free

to the 3.18-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
driver-core-bus-fix-a-potential-double-free.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.18 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.

From: Christophe JAILLET <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2017 21:23:49 +0200
Subject: driver core: bus: Fix a potential double free

From: Christophe JAILLET <[email protected]>

commit 0f9b011d3321ca1079c7a46c18cb1956fbdb7bcb upstream.

The .release function of driver_ktype is 'driver_release()'. This function frees the container_of this kobject.

So, this memory must not be freed explicitly in the error handling path of 'bus_add_driver()'. Otherwise a double free will occur.

---
 drivers/base/bus.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

@@ -722,7 +722,7 @@ int bus_add_driver(struct device_driver
 
 out_unregister:
 	kobject_put(&priv->kobj);
-	kfree(drv->p);
+	/* drv->p is freed in driver_release()  */
 	drv->p = NULL;
 out_put_bus:
 	bus_put(bus);

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-3.18/driver-core-bus-fix-a-potential-double-free.patch