[PATCH net 11/20] can: peak_usb: peak_usb_start(): fix double free of transfer buffer on URB submit error

Marc Kleine-Budde <[email protected]> Wed, 29 Jul 2026 12:12:51 +0200
Newsgroups org.kernel.vger.linux-can,org.kernel.vger.netdev,org.kernel.vger.stable
Message-ID <[email protected]>
From: Maoyi Xie <[email protected]>

In peak_usb_start(), each RX URB transfer buffer is allocated with kmalloc()
and the URB is flagged URB_FREE_BUFFER so that the final usb_free_urb() also
frees the transfer buffer.

If usb_submit_urb() fails, the error path frees the buffer explicitly with
kfree(buf) and then calls usb_free_urb(urb). Because URB_FREE_BUFFER is set,
usb_free_urb() -> urb_destroy() frees the same buffer a second time, a double
free of the transfer buffer.

  BUG: KASAN: double-free in usb_free_urb.part.0+0x91/0xb0
  Free of addr ffff8881069ccb80 by task trigger.sh/285

  Call Trace:
   kfree+0x113/0x3c0
   usb_free_urb.part.0+0x91/0xb0

Drop the redundant kfree(buf); usb_free_urb() already releases the transfer
buffer. This mirrors commit 03819abbeb11 ("net: usb: lan78xx: Fix double free
issue with interrupt buffer allocation").

Fixes: bb4785551f64 ("can: usb: PEAK-System Technik USB adapters driver core")
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-can/[email protected]/T/#u
Cc: [email protected]
Signed-off-by: Maoyi Xie <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Vincent Mailhol <[email protected]>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Marc Kleine-Budde <[email protected]>
---
 drivers/net/can/usb/peak_usb/pcan_usb_core.c | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/can/usb/peak_usb/pcan_usb_core.c b/drivers/net/can/usb/peak_usb/pcan_usb_core.c
index c7933d1acc99..55aad01cd8ca 100644
--- a/drivers/net/can/usb/peak_usb/pcan_usb_core.c
+++ b/drivers/net/can/usb/peak_usb/pcan_usb_core.c
@@ -470,7 +470,6 @@ static int peak_usb_start(struct peak_usb_device *dev)
 				netif_device_detach(dev->netdev);
 
 			usb_unanchor_urb(urb);
-			kfree(buf);
 			usb_free_urb(urb);
 			break;
 		}
-- 
2.53.0