Patch "NFC: st-nci: fix use of uninitialized variables in error path" has been added to the 4.2-stable tree

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

NFC: st-nci: fix use of uninitialized variables in error path

to the 4.2-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:
nfc-st-nci-fix-use-of-uninitialized-variables-in-error-path.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.2 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 Ricard <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2015 22:33:34 +0200
Subject: NFC: st-nci: fix use of uninitialized variables in error path

From: Christophe Ricard <[email protected]>

commit daaf1e1f1640eb11259954d1d847d8a72ab5b938 upstream.

st_nci_hci_load_session() calls kfree_skb() on unitialized variables skb_pipe_info and skb_pipe_list if the call to nci_hci_connect_gate() failed. Reword the error path to not use these variables when they are not initialized. While at it, there seemed to be a memory leak because skb_pipe_info was only freed once, after the for-loop, even though several ones were created by nci_hci_send_cmd.

---
 drivers/nfc/st-nci/st-nci_se.c |    8 ++++----
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

@@ -189,14 +189,14 @@ int st_nci_hci_load_session(struct nci_d
 				ST_NCI_DEVICE_MGNT_GATE,
 				ST_NCI_DEVICE_MGNT_PIPE);
 	if (r < 0)
-		goto free_info;
+		return r;
 
 	/* Get pipe list */
 	r = nci_hci_send_cmd(ndev, ST_NCI_DEVICE_MGNT_GATE,
 			ST_NCI_DM_GETINFO, pipe_list, sizeof(pipe_list),
 			&skb_pipe_list);
 	if (r < 0)
-		goto free_info;
+		return r;
 
 	/* Complete the existing gate_pipe table */
 	for (i = 0; i < skb_pipe_list->len; i++) {

@@ -222,6 +222,7 @@ int st_nci_hci_load_session(struct nci_d
 		    dm_pipe_info->src_host_id != ST_NCI_ESE_HOST_ID) {
 			pr_err("Unexpected apdu_reader pipe on host %x\n",
 			       dm_pipe_info->src_host_id);
+			kfree_skb(skb_pipe_info);
 			continue;
 		}
 

@@ -241,13 +242,12 @@ int st_nci_hci_load_session(struct nci_d
 			ndev->hci_dev->pipes[st_nci_gates[j].pipe].host =
 						dm_pipe_info->src_host_id;
 		}
+		kfree_skb(skb_pipe_info);
 	}
 
 	memcpy(ndev->hci_dev->init_data.gates, st_nci_gates,
 	       sizeof(st_nci_gates));
 
-free_info:
-	kfree_skb(skb_pipe_info);
 	kfree_skb(skb_pipe_list);
 	return r;
 }

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

queue-4.2/nfc-st-nci-fix-typo-when-changing-from-st21nfcb-to-st-nci.patch queue-4.2/nfc-st-nci-remove-duplicate-file-platform_data-st_nci.h.patch queue-4.2/nfc-st-nci-fix-non-accurate-comment-for-st_nci_i2c_read.patch queue-4.2/nfc-st-nci-free-data-with-irrelevant-ndlc-pcb_sync-value.patch queue-4.2/nfc-st-nci-fix-use-of-uninitialized-variables-in-error-path.patch queue-4.2/nfc-netlink-warning-fix.patch queue-4.2/nfc-st-nci-remove-data-from-ack_pending_q-when-receiving-a-sync_ack.patch queue-4.2/nfc-netlink-add-check-on-nfc_attr_vendor_data.patch queue-4.2/nfc-nci-hci-add-check-on-skb-nci_hci_send_cmd-parameter.patch queue-4.2/nfc-st21nfca-fix-use-of-uninitialized-variables-in-error-path.patch