On Mon, 2017-11-13 at 13:55 +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> 4.4-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me
> know.
>
> ------------------
>
> From: Alison Schofield <[email protected]>
>
>
> [ Upstream commit 10e840dfb0b7fc345082dd9e5fff3c1c02e7690e ]
>
> These stand-alone trigger drivers were using iio_trigger_put()
> where they should have been using iio_trigger_free(). The
> iio_trigger_put() adds a module_put which is bad since they
> never did a module_get.
>
> In the sysfs driver, module_get/put's are used as triggers are
> added & removed. This extra module_put() occurs on an error path
> in the probe routine (probably rare).
>
> In the bfin-timer & interrupt trigger drivers, the module resources
> are not explicitly managed, so it's doing a put on something that
> was never get'd. It occurs on the probe error path and on the
> remove path (not so rare).
>
> Tested with the sysfs trigger driver.
> The bfin & interrupt drivers were build tested & inspected only.
In 4.4 the iio-trig-periodic-rtc seems to have the same bug (it has
been removed upstream). Would it make sense to fix it in 4.4?
Ben.
> Signed-off-by: Alison Schofield <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Cameron <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
> ---
> drivers/iio/trigger/iio-trig-interrupt.c | 8 ++++----
> drivers/iio/trigger/iio-trig-sysfs.c | 2 +-
> drivers/staging/iio/trigger/iio-trig-bfin-timer.c | 4 ++--
> 3 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
>
> --- a/drivers/iio/trigger/iio-trig-interrupt.c
> +++ b/drivers/iio/trigger/iio-trig-interrupt.c
> @@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ static int iio_interrupt_trigger_probe(s
> trig_info = kzalloc(sizeof(*trig_info), GFP_KERNEL);
> if (!trig_info) {
> ret = -ENOMEM;
> - goto error_put_trigger;
> + goto error_free_trigger;
> }
> iio_trigger_set_drvdata(trig, trig_info);
> trig_info->irq = irq;
> @@ -83,8 +83,8 @@ error_release_irq:
> free_irq(irq, trig);
> error_free_trig_info:
> kfree(trig_info);
> -error_put_trigger:
> - iio_trigger_put(trig);
> +error_free_trigger:
> + iio_trigger_free(trig);
> error_ret:
> return ret;
> }
> @@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ static int iio_interrupt_trigger_remove(
> iio_trigger_unregister(trig);
> free_irq(trig_info->irq, trig);
> kfree(trig_info);
> - iio_trigger_put(trig);
> + iio_trigger_free(trig);
>
> return 0;
> }
> --- a/drivers/iio/trigger/iio-trig-sysfs.c
> +++ b/drivers/iio/trigger/iio-trig-sysfs.c
> @@ -174,7 +174,7 @@ static int iio_sysfs_trigger_probe(int i
> return 0;
>
> out2:
> - iio_trigger_put(t->trig);
> + iio_trigger_free(t->trig);
> free_t:
> kfree(t);
> out1:
> --- a/drivers/staging/iio/trigger/iio-trig-bfin-timer.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/iio/trigger/iio-trig-bfin-timer.c
> @@ -259,7 +259,7 @@ out_free_irq:
> out1:
> iio_trigger_unregister(st->trig);
> out:
> - iio_trigger_put(st->trig);
> + iio_trigger_free(st->trig);
> return ret;
> }
>
> @@ -272,7 +272,7 @@ static int iio_bfin_tmr_trigger_remove(s
> peripheral_free(st->t->pin);
> free_irq(st->irq, st);
> iio_trigger_unregister(st->trig);
> - iio_trigger_put(st->trig);
> + iio_trigger_free(st->trig);
>
> return 0;
> }
>
>
>
--
Ben Hutchings
Software Developer, Codethink Ltd.
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