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| author | Manank Patel <pmanank200502@gmail.com> | 2022-10-13 11:52:58 +0200 |
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| committer | Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@linux-watchdog.org> | 2022-10-19 19:49:47 +0200 |
| commit | 82ebbe65d781064cfb0a6a8af221a9cebcaaac9e (patch) | |
| tree | 01b137546a2f8c0b7d9d858bc0d13a8cf69fa8c8 /drivers | |
| parent | watchdog: sp805_wdt: fix spelling typo in comment (diff) | |
| download | linux-82ebbe65d781064cfb0a6a8af221a9cebcaaac9e.tar.xz linux-82ebbe65d781064cfb0a6a8af221a9cebcaaac9e.zip | |
drivers: watchdog: exar_wdt.c fix use after free
fix use after free by storing the result of PTR_ERR(n->pdev)
to a local variable before returning.
Signed-off-by: Manank Patel <pmanank200502@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221013095258.1424967-1-pmanank200502@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@linux-watchdog.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/watchdog/exar_wdt.c | 4 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/watchdog/exar_wdt.c b/drivers/watchdog/exar_wdt.c index 35058d8b21bc..7c61ff343271 100644 --- a/drivers/watchdog/exar_wdt.c +++ b/drivers/watchdog/exar_wdt.c @@ -355,8 +355,10 @@ static int __init exar_wdt_register(struct wdt_priv *priv, const int idx) &priv->wdt_res, 1, priv, sizeof(*priv)); if (IS_ERR(n->pdev)) { + int err = PTR_ERR(n->pdev); + kfree(n); - return PTR_ERR(n->pdev); + return err; } list_add_tail(&n->list, &pdev_list); |