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Commit d3e30559 authored by Johan Hovold's avatar Johan Hovold Committed by Michael S. Tsirkin
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firmware: qemu_fw_cfg: fix NULL-pointer deref on duplicate entries

Commit fe3c6068 ("firmware: Fix a reference count leak.") "fixed"
a kobject leak in the file registration helper by properly calling
kobject_put() for the entry in case registration of the object fails
(e.g. due to a name collision).

This would however result in a NULL pointer dereference when the
release function tries to remove the never added entry from the
fw_cfg_entry_cache list.

Fix this by moving the list-removal out of the release function.

Note that the offending commit was one of the benign looking umn.edu
fixes which was reviewed but not reverted. [1][2]

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/r/202105051005.49BFABCE@keescook
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/all/YIg7ZOZvS3a8LjSv@kroah.com

Fixes: fe3c6068

 ("firmware: Fix a reference count leak.")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org      # 5.8
Cc: Qiushi Wu <wu000273@umn.edu>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJohan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211201132528.30025-2-johan@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: default avatarMichael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
parent 28cc408b
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