That last kmemdup while opening the report descriptor was required to have a common kfree() on it.
Move that kmemdup in the only special case it's required (if there is a .report_fixup()), and add a more elaborated check before freeing hdev->rdesc, to avoid a double free. Reviewed-by: Peter Hutterer <peter.hutte...@who-t.net> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Tissoires <bent...@kernel.org> --- no changes in v3 new in v2 --- drivers/hid/hid-core.c | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++-------- 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/hid/hid-core.c b/drivers/hid/hid-core.c index 6053e7cdc0c1..b0a22e173502 100644 --- a/drivers/hid/hid-core.c +++ b/drivers/hid/hid-core.c @@ -685,7 +685,14 @@ static void hid_close_report(struct hid_device *device) INIT_LIST_HEAD(&report_enum->report_list); } - kfree(device->rdesc); + /* + * If the HID driver had a rdesc_fixup() callback, dev->rdesc + * will be allocated by hid-core and needs to be freed. + * Otherwise, it is either equal to dev_rdesc or bpf_rdesc, in + * which cases it'll be freed later on device removal or destroy. + */ + if (device->rdesc != device->dev_rdesc && device->rdesc != device->bpf_rdesc) + kfree(device->rdesc); device->rdesc = NULL; device->rsize = 0; @@ -1214,7 +1221,6 @@ int hid_open_report(struct hid_device *device) struct hid_item item; unsigned int size; const __u8 *start; - __u8 *buf = NULL; const __u8 *end; const __u8 *next; int ret; @@ -1241,17 +1247,23 @@ int hid_open_report(struct hid_device *device) * on a copy of our report descriptor so it can * change it. */ - buf = kmemdup(start, size, GFP_KERNEL); + __u8 *buf = kmemdup(start, size, GFP_KERNEL); + if (buf == NULL) return -ENOMEM; start = device->driver->report_fixup(device, buf, &size); - } - start = kmemdup(start, size, GFP_KERNEL); - kfree(buf); - if (start == NULL) - return -ENOMEM; + /* + * The second kmemdup is required in case report_fixup() returns + * a static read-only memory, but we have no idea if that memory + * needs to be cleaned up or not at the end. + */ + start = kmemdup(start, size, GFP_KERNEL); + kfree(buf); + if (start == NULL) + return -ENOMEM; + } device->rdesc = start; device->rsize = size; -- 2.46.0