Re: [PATCH 2/2] liveupdate: luo_session: Fix use after free in luo_session_deserialize()

From: Pasha Tatashin

Date: Wed Nov 26 2025 - 10:24:32 EST


On Wed, Nov 26, 2025 at 9:51 AM Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> The debug output frees "session" but it was freed on the previous line.
> Move the free after the printk().
>
> Fixes: 7eeeec7e1690 ("liveupdate: luo_session: add sessions support")
> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> kernel/liveupdate/luo_session.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/kernel/liveupdate/luo_session.c b/kernel/liveupdate/luo_session.c
> index a572bf689712..b86d45c9dcbd 100644
> --- a/kernel/liveupdate/luo_session.c
> +++ b/kernel/liveupdate/luo_session.c
> @@ -553,9 +553,9 @@ int luo_session_deserialize(void)
>
> err = luo_session_insert(sh, session);
> if (err) {
> - luo_session_free(session);
> pr_warn("Failed to insert session [%s] %pe\n",
> session->name, ERR_PTR(err));
> + luo_session_free(session);
> return err;
> }

Andrew, could you please add this fix-up to "liveupdate: luo_session:
add sessions support"

Thank you,
Pasha

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> --
> 2.51.0
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