[PATCH] PCI/DOE: Fix double free of a duplicate feature's sysfs name

From: Donggeun Yoo

Date: Sun Sep 27 2026 - 23:50:51 EST


When a DOE feature is reported twice, sysfs_add_file_to_group() fails
with -EEXIST for the second copy and pci_doe_sysfs_feature_populate()
frees that attribute's name, but leaves the pointer in place.
pci_doe_sysfs_feature_remove() frees every name again when the device
is removed, or when a later feature fails to register, so the name is
freed twice:

BUG: KASAN: double-free in pci_doe_sysfs_feature_remove+0x117/0x1b0
Call Trace:
kfree+0x11a/0x420
pci_doe_sysfs_feature_remove+0x117/0x1b0
pci_doe_sysfs_teardown+0x90/0xf0
pci_remove_bus_device+0x128/0x2e0
pci_stop_and_remove_bus_device_locked+0x1d/0x30
remove_store+0xd2/0xf0

Leave the name to pci_doe_sysfs_feature_remove(), which already frees
it for every entry.

Fixes: 2311ab1820fe ("PCI/DOE: Expose DOE features via sysfs")
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Assisted-by: LLM
Signed-off-by: Donggeun Yoo <donggeunyoo.kernel@xxxxxxxxx>
---
Tested under QEMU (q35, cxl-type3, KASAN) on 72d3fcf802c4. The device
reports its CDAT feature once, so a test-only change either registers
its DOE capability as a second mailbox or inserts the feature N extra
times into one:

case before after
no duplicate, remove no report no report
no duplicate, a name fails at probe no report no report
two mailboxes, remove double free no report
two mailboxes, 3 remove/rescan cycles 3 double frees no report
3 duplicates in one mailbox, remove 3 double frees no report
2 duplicates, a later name fails, 2 double frees no report
probed twice

The doe_features listing is the same before and after in every case.

drivers/pci/doe.c | 3 +--
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/pci/doe.c b/drivers/pci/doe.c
index ac95b1d2d9997..56605386c4c16 100644
--- a/drivers/pci/doe.c
+++ b/drivers/pci/doe.c
@@ -208,8 +208,7 @@ static int pci_doe_sysfs_feature_populate(struct pci_dev *pdev,
pci_warn(pdev, "Failed adding %s to sysfs group\n",
attrs[i].attr.name);
goto fail;
- } else
- kfree(attrs[i].attr.name);
+ }
}
}

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