From: Chengfeng Ye <cyeaa@connect.ust.hk> stable inclusion from stable-v5.10.94 commit 240cf5d3cb5e4d3eb1b7abc83b54563fe992d306 bugzilla: https://gitee.com/openeuler/kernel/issues/I531X9 Reference: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/commit/?id=... -------------------------------- [ Upstream commit a1ee1c08fcd5af03187dcd41dcab12fd5b379555 ] cl is freed on error of calling device_register, but this object is return later, which will cause uaf issue. Fix it by return NULL on error. Signed-off-by: Chengfeng Ye <cyeaa@connect.ust.hk> Signed-off-by: Sebastian Reichel <sebastian.reichel@collabora.com> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Zheng Zengkai <zhengzengkai@huawei.com> Acked-by: Xie XiuQi <xiexiuqi@huawei.com> --- drivers/hsi/hsi_core.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/drivers/hsi/hsi_core.c b/drivers/hsi/hsi_core.c index a5f92e2889cb..a330f58d45fc 100644 --- a/drivers/hsi/hsi_core.c +++ b/drivers/hsi/hsi_core.c @@ -102,6 +102,7 @@ struct hsi_client *hsi_new_client(struct hsi_port *port, if (device_register(&cl->device) < 0) { pr_err("hsi: failed to register client: %s\n", info->name); put_device(&cl->device); + goto err; } return cl; -- 2.20.1