The commit 8dfbcc4351 ("[media] xc2028: avoid use after free") tried
to address the reported use-after-free by clearing the reference.
However, it's clearing the wrong pointer; it sets NULL to
priv->ctrl.fname, but it's anyway overwritten by the next line
memcpy(&priv->ctrl, p, sizeof(priv->ctrl)).
OTOH, the actual code accessing the freed string is the strcmp() call
with priv->fname:
if (!firmware_name[0] && p->fname &&
priv->fname && strcmp(p->fname, priv->fname))
free_firmware(priv);
where priv->fname points to the previous file name, and this was
already freed by kfree().
For fixing the bug properly, this patch does the following:
- Keep the copy of firmware file name in only priv->fname,
priv->ctrl.fname isn't changed;
- The allocation is done only when the firmware gets loaded;
- The kfree() is called in free_firmware() commonly
Fixes: commit 8dfbcc4351 ('[media] xc2028: avoid use after free')
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
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