Patch "NFC: nfcmrvl: double free on error path" has been added to the 4.9-stable tree

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

NFC: nfcmrvl: double free on error path

to the 4.9-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-nfcmrvl-double-free-on-error-path.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory.

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

From: Dan Carpenter <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2017 08:22:37 +0300
Subject: NFC: nfcmrvl: double free on error path

From: Dan Carpenter <[email protected]>

[ Upstream commit ca42fb9e52d155547e6cf18cf26bce3e1a6af4ea ]

The nci_spi_send() function calls kfree_skb(skb) on both error and success so this extra kfree_skb() is a double free.

---
 drivers/nfc/nfcmrvl/spi.c |    5 ++---
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

@@ -96,10 +96,9 @@ static int nfcmrvl_spi_nci_send(struct n
 	/* Send the SPI packet */
 	err = nci_spi_send(drv_data->nci_spi, &drv_data->handshake_completion,
 			   skb);
-	if (err != 0) {
+	if (err)
 		nfc_err(priv->dev, "spi_send failed %d", err);
-		kfree_skb(skb);
-	}
+
 	return err;
 }
 

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

queue-4.9/media-cpia2-fix-a-couple-off-by-one-bugs.patch queue-4.9/nfc-nfcmrvl-double-free-on-error-path.patch queue-4.9/asoc-nuc900-fix-a-loop-timeout-test.patch