Drivers: hv: vmbus: fix double free in the error path of vmbus_add_channel_work()

In the error path of vmbus_device_register(), device_unregister()
is called, which calls vmbus_device_release().  The latter frees
the struct hv_device that was passed in to vmbus_device_register().
So remove the kfree() in vmbus_add_channel_work() to avoid a double
free.

Fixes: c2e5df616e1a ("vmbus: add per-channel sysfs info")
Suggested-by: Michael Kelley <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Yang Yingliang <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Michael Kelley <[email protected]>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Wei Liu <[email protected]>

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/hv/channel_mgmt.c b/drivers/hv/channel_mgmt.c
index 5b120402d405..cc23b90cae02 100644
--- a/drivers/hv/channel_mgmt.c
+++ b/drivers/hv/channel_mgmt.c
@@ -533,13 +533,17 @@ static void vmbus_add_channel_work(struct work_struct *work)
 	 * Add the new device to the bus. This will kick off device-driver
 	 * binding which eventually invokes the device driver's AddDevice()
 	 * method.
+	 *
+	 * If vmbus_device_register() fails, the 'device_obj' is freed in
+	 * vmbus_device_release() as called by device_unregister() in the
+	 * error path of vmbus_device_register(). In the outside error
+	 * path, there's no need to free it.
 	 */
 	ret = vmbus_device_register(newchannel->device_obj);
 
 	if (ret != 0) {
 		pr_err("unable to add child device object (relid %d)\n",
 			newchannel->offermsg.child_relid);
-		kfree(newchannel->device_obj);
 		goto err_deq_chan;
 	}