From: Guangshuo Li <lgs201920130244@gmail.com> stable inclusion from stable-v6.6.145 commit 46d403da376a8b7c1187193294953816e1a8d7fe category: bugfix bugzilla: https://atomgit.com/src-openeuler/kernel/issues/16671 CVE: CVE-2026-64376 Reference: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/commit/?id=... -------------------------------- commit 896df22ee57648b0c505bd76ddbc6b2341834696 upstream. firmware_upload_register() -> fw_create_instance() -> device_initialize() After fw_create_instance() succeeds, the lifetime of the embedded struct device is expected to be managed through the device core reference counting, since fw_create_instance() has already called device_initialize(). In firmware_upload_register(), if alloc_lookup_fw_priv() fails after fw_create_instance() succeeds, the code reaches free_fw_sysfs and frees fw_sysfs directly instead of releasing the device reference with put_device(). This may leave the reference count of the embedded struct device unbalanced, resulting in a refcount leak. The issue was identified by a static analysis tool I developed and confirmed by manual review. Fix this by using put_device(fw_dev) in the failure path and letting fw_dev_release() handle the final cleanup, instead of freeing the instance directly from the error path. Fixes: 97730bbb242c ("firmware_loader: Add firmware-upload support") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Guangshuo Li <lgs201920130244@gmail.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260505091231.607089-1-lgs201920130244@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Danilo Krummrich <dakr@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Signed-off-by: Hulk Robot <hulkrobot@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Zhang Yuwei <zhangyuwei20@huawei.com> --- drivers/base/firmware_loader/sysfs_upload.c | 8 +++----- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/base/firmware_loader/sysfs_upload.c b/drivers/base/firmware_loader/sysfs_upload.c index a0af8f5f13d8..54a1abae3948 100644 --- a/drivers/base/firmware_loader/sysfs_upload.c +++ b/drivers/base/firmware_loader/sysfs_upload.c @@ -340,7 +340,6 @@ firmware_upload_register(struct module *module, struct device *parent, goto free_fw_upload_priv; } fw_upload->priv = fw_sysfs; - fw_sysfs->fw_upload_priv = fw_upload_priv; fw_dev = &fw_sysfs->dev; ret = alloc_lookup_fw_priv(name, &fw_cache, &fw_priv, NULL, 0, 0, @@ -348,10 +347,12 @@ firmware_upload_register(struct module *module, struct device *parent, if (ret != 0) { if (ret > 0) ret = -EINVAL; - goto free_fw_sysfs; + put_device(fw_dev); + goto free_fw_upload_priv; } fw_priv->is_paged_buf = true; fw_sysfs->fw_priv = fw_priv; + fw_sysfs->fw_upload_priv = fw_upload_priv; ret = device_add(fw_dev); if (ret) { @@ -362,9 +363,6 @@ firmware_upload_register(struct module *module, struct device *parent, return fw_upload; -free_fw_sysfs: - kfree(fw_sysfs); - free_fw_upload_priv: kfree(fw_upload_priv); -- 2.22.0