patch "iio: core: fix double free in iio_device_unregister_sysfs()" added to char-misc-testing

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

iio: core: fix double free in iio_device_unregister_sysfs()

to my char-misc git tree which can be found at
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc.git
in the char-misc-testing 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 be merged to the char-misc-next branch sometime soon, after it passes testing, and the merge window is open.

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

From 19833c40d0415d6fe4340b5b9c46239abbf718f6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Yang Yingliang <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2021 11:05:32 +0800
Subject: iio: core: fix double free in iio_device_unregister_sysfs()

I got the double free report:

BUG: KASAN: double-free or invalid-free in kfree+0xce/0x390
 iio_device_unregister_sysfs+0x108/0x13b [industrialio]
 iio_dev_release+0x9e/0x10e [industrialio]
 device_release+0xa5/0x240

If __iio_device_register() fails, iio_dev_opaque->groups will be freed in error path in iio_device_unregister_sysfs(), then iio_dev_release() will call iio_device_unregister_sysfs() again, it causes double free. Set iio_dev_opaque->groups to NULL when it's freed to fix this double free.

Not this is a local work around for a more general mess around life time management that will get cleaned up and should make this handling unnecesarry.

---
 drivers/iio/industrialio-core.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

index 48fda6a79076..3e1e86d987cc 100644
@@ -1600,6 +1600,7 @@ static void iio_device_unregister_sysfs(struct iio_dev *indio_dev)
 	kfree(iio_dev_opaque->chan_attr_group.attrs);
 	iio_dev_opaque->chan_attr_group.attrs = NULL;
 	kfree(iio_dev_opaque->groups);
+	iio_dev_opaque->groups = NULL;
 }
 
 static void iio_dev_release(struct device *device)

2.33.1