Patch "mtd: phram: fix a double free issue in error path" has been added to the 5.6-stable tree

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

mtd: phram: fix a double free issue in error path

to the 5.6-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:
mtd-phram-fix-a-double-free-issue-in-error-path.patch
and it can be found in the queue-5.6 subdirectory.

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

From 49c64df880570034308e4a9a49c4bc95cf8cdb33 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Wen Yang <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2020 23:31:56 +0800
Subject: mtd: phram: fix a double free issue in error path

From: Wen Yang <[email protected]>

commit 49c64df880570034308e4a9a49c4bc95cf8cdb33 upstream.

The variable 'name' is released multiple times in the error path, which may cause double free issues.
This problem is avoided by adding a goto label to release the memory uniformly. And this change also makes the code a bit more cleaner.

---
 drivers/mtd/devices/phram.c |   15 +++++++++------
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

@@ -243,22 +243,25 @@ static int phram_setup(const char *val)
 
 	ret = parse_num64(&start, token[1]);
 	if (ret) {
-		kfree(name);
 		parse_err("illegal start address\n");
+		goto error;
 	}
 
 	ret = parse_num64(&len, token[2]);
 	if (ret) {
-		kfree(name);
 		parse_err("illegal device length\n");
+		goto error;
 	}
 
 	ret = register_device(name, start, len);
-	if (!ret)
-		pr_info("%s device: %#llx at %#llx\n", name, len, start);
-	else
-		kfree(name);
+	if (ret)
+		goto error;
 
+	pr_info("%s device: %#llx at %#llx\n", name, len, start);
+	return 0;
+
+error:
+	kfree(name);
 	return ret;
 }
 

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

queue-5.6/mtd-phram-fix-a-double-free-issue-in-error-path.patch

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