Thread (3 messages) 3 messages, 1 author, 2018-07-17

Re: [PATCH 2/2] nfc: st95hf: drop another illegal kfree_skb()

From: Daniel Mack <daniel@zonque.org>
Date: 2018-07-17 14:21:52

Hi,

I'll resend the two patches in this series as part of a bigger series 
soon, please ignore them for now.


Thanks,
Daniel



On Friday, June 29, 2018 02:47 PM, Daniel Mack wrote:
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
In the error path of the IRQ handler, don't free the skb in flight. The
callback in the digital core will do that for us, so this is another
double-free that leads to memory corruptions.

The assignment of 'wtx' doesn't make sense as the variable is not read
after it is written. Drop it.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Mack <daniel@zonque.org>
---
  drivers/nfc/st95hf/core.c | 2 --
  1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/nfc/st95hf/core.c b/drivers/nfc/st95hf/core.c
index ef91ca8b53a4..e651e1aae5a3 100644
--- a/drivers/nfc/st95hf/core.c
+++ b/drivers/nfc/st95hf/core.c
@@ -868,8 +868,6 @@ static irqreturn_t st95hf_irq_thread_handler(int irq, void  *st95hfcontext)
  	return IRQ_HANDLED;
  
  end:
-	kfree_skb(skb_resp);
-	wtx = false;
  	cb_arg->rats = false;
  	skb_resp = ERR_PTR(result);
  	/* call of callback with error */
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