[SRU][N][PATCH 1/1] PCI: endpoint: pci-epf-test: Fix double free that causes kernel to oops

Cengiz Can cengiz.can at canonical.com
Thu Sep 10 10:29:05 UTC 2026


From: Christian Bruel <christian.bruel at foss.st.com>

Fix a kernel oops found while testing the stm32_pcie Endpoint driver
with handling of PERST# deassertion:

During EP initialization, pci_epf_test_alloc_space() allocates all BARs,
which are further freed if epc_set_bar() fails (for instance, due to no
free inbound window).

However, when pci_epc_set_bar() fails, the error path:

  pci_epc_set_bar() ->
    pci_epf_free_space()

does not clear the previous assignment to epf_test->reg[bar].

Then, if the host reboots, the PERST# deassertion restarts the BAR
allocation sequence with the same allocation failure (no free inbound
window), creating a double free situation since epf_test->reg[bar] was
deallocated and is still non-NULL.

Thus, make sure that pci_epf_alloc_space() and pci_epf_free_space()
invocations are symmetric, and as such, set epf_test->reg[bar] to NULL
when memory is freed.

Reviewed-by: Niklas Cassel <cassel at kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Manivannan Sadhasivam <manivannan.sadhasivam at linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Christian Bruel <christian.bruel at foss.st.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250124123043.96112-1-christian.bruel@foss.st.com
[kwilczynski: commit log]
Signed-off-by: Krzysztof WilczyƄski <kwilczynski at kernel.org>
(backported from commit 934e9d137d937706004c325fa1474f9e3f1ba10a)
[bot_kybele: This tree has no pci_epf_test_free_space(); its freeing loop lives
 inline in pci_epf_test_unbind(), so the reg[bar]=NULL fix was applied there.
 The second hunk had fuzzy-matched into pci_epf_configure_bar(), which was
 reverted.]
CVE-2025-38069
Assisted-by: kybele:claude-opus-4.8
Signed-off-by: Cengiz Can <cengiz.can at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/pci/endpoint/functions/pci-epf-test.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/pci/endpoint/functions/pci-epf-test.c b/drivers/pci/endpoint/functions/pci-epf-test.c
index ddc0d0a00dd3..0e98d88e93b0 100644
--- a/drivers/pci/endpoint/functions/pci-epf-test.c
+++ b/drivers/pci/endpoint/functions/pci-epf-test.c
@@ -706,6 +706,7 @@ static void pci_epf_test_unbind(struct pci_epf *epf)
 					  epf_bar);
 			pci_epf_free_space(epf, epf_test->reg[bar], bar,
 					   PRIMARY_INTERFACE);
+			epf_test->reg[bar] = NULL;
 		}
 	}
 }
@@ -740,6 +741,7 @@ static int pci_epf_test_set_bar(struct pci_epf *epf)
 		if (ret) {
 			pci_epf_free_space(epf, epf_test->reg[bar], bar,
 					   PRIMARY_INTERFACE);
+			epf_test->reg[bar] = NULL;
 			dev_err(dev, "Failed to set BAR%d\n", bar);
 			if (bar == test_reg_bar)
 				return ret;
-- 
2.53.0




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