patch "driver core: bus: Fix a potential double free" added to driver-core-next

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 my driver-core git tree which can be found at
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core.git
in the driver-core-next branch.

The patch will show up in the next release of the linux-next tree (usually sometime within the next 24 hours during the week.)

The patch will also be merged in the next major kernel release during the merge window.

If you have any questions about this process, please let me know.

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

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(-)

index e162c9a789ba..22a64fd3309b 100644
@@ -698,7 +698,7 @@ int bus_add_driver(struct device_driver *drv)
 
 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);

2.14.1