Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754261AbaA0UYx (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Jan 2014 15:24:53 -0500 Received: from mail-pd0-f172.google.com ([209.85.192.172]:41729 "EHLO mail-pd0-f172.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753763AbaA0UYv (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Jan 2014 15:24:51 -0500 Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2014 12:24:47 -0800 From: Dmitry Torokhov To: Alexey Khoroshilov Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , linux-input@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ldv-project@linuxtesting.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] USB: input: gtco.c: fix usb_dev leak Message-ID: <20140127202447.GA18489@core.coreip.homeip.net> References: <1390853454-31749-1-git-send-email-khoroshilov@ispras.ru> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1390853454-31749-1-git-send-email-khoroshilov@ispras.ru> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 12:10:54AM +0400, Alexey Khoroshilov wrote: > There is usb_get_dev() in gtco_probe(), but there is no usb_put_dev() > anywhere in the driver. > > As pointed out by Dmitry Torokhov: > The lifetime of gtco structure is already directly tied to lifetime of > usb_dev: when destroying usb_dev driver core will call remove() function > of currently bound driver (in our case gtco) which will destroy gtco > memory. Taking additional reference is not needed here. > > Found by Linux Driver Verification project (linuxtesting.org). > > Signed-off-by: Alexey Khoroshilov Applied, thank you. > --- > drivers/input/tablet/gtco.c | 2 +- > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/drivers/input/tablet/gtco.c b/drivers/input/tablet/gtco.c > index caecffe8caff..858045694e9d 100644 > --- a/drivers/input/tablet/gtco.c > +++ b/drivers/input/tablet/gtco.c > @@ -848,7 +848,7 @@ static int gtco_probe(struct usb_interface *usbinterface, > gtco->inputdevice = input_dev; > > /* Save interface information */ > - gtco->usbdev = usb_get_dev(interface_to_usbdev(usbinterface)); > + gtco->usbdev = interface_to_usbdev(usbinterface); > gtco->intf = usbinterface; > > /* Allocate some data for incoming reports */ > -- > 1.8.3.2 > -- Dmitry -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/