Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2FFC5C43217 for ; Wed, 24 Nov 2021 12:22:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S244453AbhKXMXe (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 Nov 2021 07:23:34 -0500 Received: from mail.kernel.org ([198.145.29.99]:36414 "EHLO mail.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S243692AbhKXMSp (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 Nov 2021 07:18:45 -0500 Received: by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id D15A460232; Wed, 24 Nov 2021 12:11:41 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=linuxfoundation.org; s=korg; t=1637755902; bh=1vnFhOXJSZ8Vi7qsov5nOLUMlv3K3HGCaBs35V6Sl8w=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:Date:In-Reply-To:References:From; b=EEv4E7myc+2d/aL/BXXj/NfYd9VtHGE3LhAUauOdSG5NpkTDdW15R7r4YIVXJYY2O afiMGIJSQaha3hwB6fqNQS9h9D9vGRpa1ZjUaWfOsr71zSsKwiH1PZTbdSASgEhYea kq36wys5SOFZQpRZNI8G702mSb+5pKaTrqnS+fmE= From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , stable@vger.kernel.org, Hulk Robot , Yang Yingliang , Guenter Roeck , Sasha Levin Subject: [PATCH 4.9 100/207] hwmon: Fix possible memleak in __hwmon_device_register() Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2021 12:56:11 +0100 Message-Id: <20211124115707.320515572@linuxfoundation.org> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.34.0 In-Reply-To: <20211124115703.941380739@linuxfoundation.org> References: <20211124115703.941380739@linuxfoundation.org> User-Agent: quilt/0.66 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Yang Yingliang [ Upstream commit ada61aa0b1184a8fda1a89a340c7d6cc4e59aee5 ] I got memory leak as follows when doing fault injection test: unreferenced object 0xffff888102740438 (size 8): comm "27", pid 859, jiffies 4295031351 (age 143.992s) hex dump (first 8 bytes): 68 77 6d 6f 6e 30 00 00 hwmon0.. backtrace: [<00000000544b5996>] __kmalloc_track_caller+0x1a6/0x300 [<00000000df0d62b9>] kvasprintf+0xad/0x140 [<00000000d3d2a3da>] kvasprintf_const+0x62/0x190 [<000000005f8f0f29>] kobject_set_name_vargs+0x56/0x140 [<00000000b739e4b9>] dev_set_name+0xb0/0xe0 [<0000000095b69c25>] __hwmon_device_register+0xf19/0x1e50 [hwmon] [<00000000a7e65b52>] hwmon_device_register_with_info+0xcb/0x110 [hwmon] [<000000006f181e86>] devm_hwmon_device_register_with_info+0x85/0x100 [hwmon] [<0000000081bdc567>] tmp421_probe+0x2d2/0x465 [tmp421] [<00000000502cc3f8>] i2c_device_probe+0x4e1/0xbb0 [<00000000f90bda3b>] really_probe+0x285/0xc30 [<000000007eac7b77>] __driver_probe_device+0x35f/0x4f0 [<000000004953d43d>] driver_probe_device+0x4f/0x140 [<000000002ada2d41>] __device_attach_driver+0x24c/0x330 [<00000000b3977977>] bus_for_each_drv+0x15d/0x1e0 [<000000005bf2a8e3>] __device_attach+0x267/0x410 When device_register() returns an error, the name allocated in dev_set_name() will be leaked, the put_device() should be used instead of calling hwmon_dev_release() to give up the device reference, then the name will be freed in kobject_cleanup(). Reported-by: Hulk Robot Fixes: bab2243ce189 ("hwmon: Introduce hwmon_device_register_with_groups") Signed-off-by: Yang Yingliang Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211012112758.2681084-1-yangyingliang@huawei.com Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin --- drivers/hwmon/hwmon.c | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/hwmon/hwmon.c b/drivers/hwmon/hwmon.c index e0a1a118514f9..8b11d2fdf80ab 100644 --- a/drivers/hwmon/hwmon.c +++ b/drivers/hwmon/hwmon.c @@ -592,8 +592,10 @@ __hwmon_device_register(struct device *dev, const char *name, void *drvdata, dev_set_drvdata(hdev, drvdata); dev_set_name(hdev, HWMON_ID_FORMAT, id); err = device_register(hdev); - if (err) - goto free_hwmon; + if (err) { + put_device(hdev); + goto ida_remove; + } if (chip && chip->ops->is_visible && chip->ops->read && chip->info[0]->type == hwmon_chip && -- 2.33.0