[PATCH] HID: hid-input: Fix accessing freed memory during driver unbind

From: Krzysztof Kozlowski
Date: Mon Jul 27 2015 - 20:17:16 EST


During unbinding the driver was dereferencing a pointer to memory
already freed by power_supply_unregister().

Driver was freeing its internal description of battery through pointers
stored in power_supply structure. However, because the core owns the
power supply instance, after calling power_supply_unregister() the
driver cannot access these members.

Fix this by using resource-managed allocations so internal data will be
freed by pointers stored in resource-managed core.

Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <k.kozlowski@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Reported-by: H.J. Lu <hjl.tools@xxxxxxxxx>
Fixes: 297d716f6260 ("power_supply: Change ownership from driver to core")
Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/hid/hid-input.c | 13 ++++---------
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/hid/hid-input.c b/drivers/hid/hid-input.c
index 14aebe483219..5429a8497d51 100644
--- a/drivers/hid/hid-input.c
+++ b/drivers/hid/hid-input.c
@@ -408,15 +408,14 @@ static bool hidinput_setup_battery(struct hid_device *dev, unsigned report_type,
if (dev->battery != NULL)
goto out; /* already initialized? */

- psy_desc = kzalloc(sizeof(*psy_desc), GFP_KERNEL);
+ psy_desc = devm_kzalloc(&dev->dev, sizeof(*psy_desc), GFP_KERNEL);
if (psy_desc == NULL)
goto out;

- psy_desc->name = kasprintf(GFP_KERNEL, "hid-%s-battery", dev->uniq);
- if (psy_desc->name == NULL) {
- kfree(psy_desc);
+ psy_desc->name = devm_kasprintf(&dev->dev, GFP_KERNEL,
+ "hid-%s-battery", dev->uniq);
+ if (psy_desc->name == NULL)
goto out;
- }

psy_desc->type = POWER_SUPPLY_TYPE_BATTERY;
psy_desc->properties = hidinput_battery_props;
@@ -449,8 +448,6 @@ static bool hidinput_setup_battery(struct hid_device *dev, unsigned report_type,
if (IS_ERR(dev->battery)) {
hid_warn(dev, "can't register power supply: %ld\n",
PTR_ERR(dev->battery));
- kfree(psy_desc->name);
- kfree(psy_desc);
dev->battery = NULL;
} else {
power_supply_powers(dev->battery, &dev->dev);
@@ -466,8 +463,6 @@ static void hidinput_cleanup_battery(struct hid_device *dev)
return;

power_supply_unregister(dev->battery);
- kfree(dev->battery->desc->name);
- kfree(dev->battery->desc);
dev->battery = NULL;
}
#else /* !CONFIG_HID_BATTERY_STRENGTH */
--
1.9.1

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