[3.16.y-ckt stable] Patch "iio: core: Fix double free." has been added to staging queue

[Luis Henriques]

This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    iio: core: Fix double free.

to the linux-3.16.y-queue branch of the 3.16.y-ckt extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.16.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.16.7-ckt10.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.16.y-ckt tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Luis

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>From cc9093484ecd83fb4bd1ff25151abf5a6c40a097 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Martin Fuzzey <mfuzzey at parkeon.com>
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2015 15:17:44 +0100
Subject: iio: core: Fix double free.

commit c1b03ab5e886760bdd38c9c7a27af149046ffe01 upstream.

When an error occurred during event registration memory was freed twice
resulting in kernel memory corruption and a crash in unrelated code.

The problem was caused by
	iio_device_unregister_eventset()
	iio_device_unregister_sysfs()

being called twice, once on the error path and then
again via iio_dev_release().

Fix this by making these two functions idempotent so they
may be called multiple times.

The problem was observed before applying
	78b33216 iio:core: Handle error when mask type is not separate

Signed-off-by: Martin Fuzzey <mfuzzey at parkeon.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Cameron <jic23 at kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/iio/industrialio-core.c  | 5 +++--
 drivers/iio/industrialio-event.c | 1 +
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/iio/industrialio-core.c b/drivers/iio/industrialio-core.c
index 4b1f375c5659..fa061972a2fe 100644
--- a/drivers/iio/industrialio-core.c
+++ b/drivers/iio/industrialio-core.c
@@ -828,8 +828,7 @@ static int iio_device_add_channel_sysfs(struct iio_dev *indio_dev,
  * @attr_list: List of IIO device attributes
  *
  * This function frees the memory allocated for each of the IIO device
- * attributes in the list. Note: if you want to reuse the list after calling
- * this function you have to reinitialize it using INIT_LIST_HEAD().
+ * attributes in the list.
  */
 void iio_free_chan_devattr_list(struct list_head *attr_list)
 {
@@ -837,6 +836,7 @@ void iio_free_chan_devattr_list(struct list_head *attr_list)

 	list_for_each_entry_safe(p, n, attr_list, l) {
 		kfree(p->dev_attr.attr.name);
+		list_del(&p->l);
 		kfree(p);
 	}
 }
@@ -917,6 +917,7 @@ static void iio_device_unregister_sysfs(struct iio_dev *indio_dev)

 	iio_free_chan_devattr_list(&indio_dev->channel_attr_list);
 	kfree(indio_dev->chan_attr_group.attrs);
+	indio_dev->chan_attr_group.attrs = NULL;
 }

 static void iio_dev_release(struct device *device)
diff --git a/drivers/iio/industrialio-event.c b/drivers/iio/industrialio-event.c
index bfbf4d419f41..ad7a35f63a16 100644
--- a/drivers/iio/industrialio-event.c
+++ b/drivers/iio/industrialio-event.c
@@ -492,6 +492,7 @@ int iio_device_register_eventset(struct iio_dev *indio_dev)
 error_free_setup_event_lines:
 	iio_free_chan_devattr_list(&indio_dev->event_interface->dev_attr_list);
 	kfree(indio_dev->event_interface);
+	indio_dev->event_interface = NULL;
 	return ret;
 }