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mailbox: mailbox-test: fix a locking issue in mbox_test_message_write()
authorDan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@linaro.org>
Fri, 5 May 2023 09:22:09 +0000 (12:22 +0300)
committerJassi Brar <jaswinder.singh@linaro.org>
Wed, 31 May 2023 18:26:44 +0000 (13:26 -0500)
There was a bug where this code forgot to unlock the tdev->mutex if the
kzalloc() failed.  Fix this issue, by moving the allocation outside the
lock.

Fixes: 2d1e952a2b8e ("mailbox: mailbox-test: Fix potential double-free in mbox_test_message_write()")
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Lee Jones <lee@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jassi Brar <jaswinder.singh@linaro.org>
drivers/mailbox/mailbox-test.c

index c4a705c30331421e08e31606a12285d56a6d8682..fc6a12a51b403863d7dcb36a63a54b5a76c2f135 100644 (file)
@@ -98,6 +98,7 @@ static ssize_t mbox_test_message_write(struct file *filp,
                                       size_t count, loff_t *ppos)
 {
        struct mbox_test_device *tdev = filp->private_data;
+       char *message;
        void *data;
        int ret;
 
@@ -113,12 +114,13 @@ static ssize_t mbox_test_message_write(struct file *filp,
                return -EINVAL;
        }
 
-       mutex_lock(&tdev->mutex);
-
-       tdev->message = kzalloc(MBOX_MAX_MSG_LEN, GFP_KERNEL);
-       if (!tdev->message)
+       message = kzalloc(MBOX_MAX_MSG_LEN, GFP_KERNEL);
+       if (!message)
                return -ENOMEM;
 
+       mutex_lock(&tdev->mutex);
+
+       tdev->message = message;
        ret = copy_from_user(tdev->message, userbuf, count);
        if (ret) {
                ret = -EFAULT;