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authorJohan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>2015-02-18 10:34:50 +0700
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2015-03-18 13:22:31 +0100
commit9fd948c1b776066a84386d146f3a4e848b976bd5 (patch)
tree990b0b6471ceb2ac067759629509cca3223d9f48
parent565acebb005569dc8527a9b2ad2c904ba92bf9d1 (diff)
USB: serial: fix potential use-after-free after failed probe
commit 07fdfc5e9f1c966be8722e8fa927e5ea140df5ce upstream. Fix return value in probe error path, which could end up returning success (0) on errors. This could in turn lead to use-after-free or double free (e.g. in port_remove) when the port device is removed. Fixes: c706ebdfc895 ("USB: usb-serial: call port_probe and port_remove at the right times") Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org> Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <greg@kroah.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
-rw-r--r--drivers/usb/serial/bus.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/usb/serial/bus.c b/drivers/usb/serial/bus.c
index 7229b265870a..5c56efeaf202 100644
--- a/drivers/usb/serial/bus.c
+++ b/drivers/usb/serial/bus.c
@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ static int usb_serial_device_probe(struct device *dev)
retval = device_create_file(dev, &dev_attr_port_number);
if (retval) {
if (driver->port_remove)
- retval = driver->port_remove(port);
+ driver->port_remove(port);
goto exit_with_autopm;
}