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From:   Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@baylibre.com>
Date:   Tue, 18 Feb 2020 11:22:10 +0100
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/7] nvmem: fix another memory leak in error path
To:     Srinivas Kandagatla <srinivas.kandagatla@linaro.org>
Cc:     Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@bgdev.pl>,
        Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>,
        Khouloud Touil <ktouil@baylibre.com>,
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wt., 18 lut 2020 o 11:11 Srinivas Kandagatla
<srinivas.kandagatla@linaro.org> napisa=C5=82(a):
>
>
>
> On 18/02/2020 10:05, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:
> > wt., 18 lut 2020 o 10:56 Srinivas Kandagatla
> > <srinivas.kandagatla@linaro.org> napisa=C5=82(a):
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On 18/02/2020 09:42, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:
> >>> From: Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@baylibre.com>
> >>>
> >>> The nvmem struct is only freed on the first error check after its
> >>> allocation and leaked after that. Fix it with a new label.
> >>>
> >>> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
> >>> Signed-off-by: Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@baylibre.com>
> >>> ---
> >>>    drivers/nvmem/core.c | 8 ++++----
> >>>    1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> >>>
> >>> diff --git a/drivers/nvmem/core.c b/drivers/nvmem/core.c
> >>> index b0be03d5f240..c9b3f4047154 100644
> >>> --- a/drivers/nvmem/core.c
> >>> +++ b/drivers/nvmem/core.c
> >>> @@ -343,10 +343,8 @@ struct nvmem_device *nvmem_register(const struct=
 nvmem_config *config)
> >>>                return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
> >>>
> >>>        rval  =3D ida_simple_get(&nvmem_ida, 0, 0, GFP_KERNEL);
> >>> -     if (rval < 0) {
> >>> -             kfree(nvmem);
> >>> -             return ERR_PTR(rval);
> >>> -     }
> >>> +     if (rval < 0)
> >>> +             goto err_free_nvmem;
> >>>        if (config->wp_gpio)
> >>>                nvmem->wp_gpio =3D config->wp_gpio;
> >>>        else
> >>> @@ -432,6 +430,8 @@ struct nvmem_device *nvmem_register(const struct =
nvmem_config *config)
> >>>        put_device(&nvmem->dev);
> >>>    err_ida_remove:
> >>>        ida_simple_remove(&nvmem_ida, nvmem->id);
> >>> +err_free_nvmem:
> >>> +     kfree(nvmem);
> >>
> >> This is not correct fix to start with, if the device has already been
> >> intialized before jumping here then nvmem would be freed as part of
> >> nvmem_release().
> >>
> >> So the bug was actually introduced by adding err_ida_remove label.
> >>
> >> You can free nvmem at that point but not at any point after that as
> >> device core would be holding a reference to it.
> >>
> >
> > OK I see - I missed the release() callback assignment. Frankly: I find
> > this split of resource management responsibility confusing. Since the
> > users are expected to call nvmem_unregister() anyway - wouldn't it be
> > more clear to just free all resources there? What is the advantage of
> > defining the release() callback for device type here?
>
> Because we are using dev pointer from nvmem structure, and this dev
> pointer should be valid until release callback is invoked.
>
> Freeing nvmem at any early stage would make dev pointer invalid and
> device core would dereference it!
>

Ok, let me brew up a v3 with that in mind.

Bart