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    rsi: fix a double free bug in rsi_91x_deinit() · 8b51dc72
    Hui Peng authored
    
    
    `dev` (struct rsi_91x_usbdev *) field of adapter
    (struct rsi_91x_usbdev *) is allocated  and initialized in
    `rsi_init_usb_interface`. If any error is detected in information
    read from the device side,  `rsi_init_usb_interface` will be
    freed. However, in the higher level error handling code in
    `rsi_probe`, if error is detected, `rsi_91x_deinit` is called
    again, in which `dev` will be freed again, resulting double free.
    
    This patch fixes the double free by removing the free operation on
    `dev` in `rsi_init_usb_interface`, because `rsi_91x_deinit` is also
    used in `rsi_disconnect`, in that code path, the `dev` field is not
     (and thus needs to be) freed.
    
    This bug was found in v4.19, but is also present in the latest version
    of kernel. Fixes CVE-2019-15504.
    
    Reported-by: default avatarHui Peng <benquike@gmail.com>
    Reported-by: default avatarMathias Payer <mathias.payer@nebelwelt.net>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarHui Peng <benquike@gmail.com>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarGuenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarKalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
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