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However, at that point the fence has\nonly been kmalloc'd \u2014 dma_fence_init() has not been called yet, so the\nrefcount and the fence ops are uninitialized. Calling dma_fence_put() on\nsuch an object leads to undefined behavior.\n\nUse kfree() instead, since the fence is just a plain allocation at this\nstage, and rename the label to err_fence_free to reflect the actual\ncleanup action."}], "metrics": [{"cvssV3_1": {"version": "3.1", "vectorString": "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H", "baseScore": 7, "baseSeverity": "HIGH"}, "scenarios": [{"lang": "en", "value": "AV:L - The uninitialized fence is kmalloc'd and then dma_fence_put() in ffs_dmabuf_transfer(), reached only from ffs_epfile_ioctl()'s FUNCTIONFS_DMABUF_TRANSFER case after copy_from_user of usb_ffs_dmabuf_transfer_req; USB host traffic never supplies that ioctl or the fence object.\nAC:H - err_fence_put runs only when epfile->ep != ep after ffs_epfile_wait_ep() (epfile->ep is NULLed solely by ffs_func_eps_disable() from gadget set_alt/disable/unbind) or when usb_ep_alloc_request(..., GFP_ATOMIC) fails; the ioctl caller cannot invoke those gadget callbacks and cannot reliably force that small GFP_ATOMIC allocation to fail.\nPR:L - ffs_epfile_ioctl() has no capable() check; FUNCTIONFS_DMABUF_TRANSFER only needs the endpoint file open. 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