hwmon: (core) Do not use device managed functions for memory allocations
authorGuenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Thu, 16 Jan 2020 18:44:17 +0000 (10:44 -0800)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Wed, 29 Jan 2020 09:24:38 +0000 (10:24 +0100)
commit974185eeb19e17a33ad068eb195f46ea408b25ae
treef486f4254852c8c338e9262c559efbdd4d3bed5d
parent81ca3dc37da332d6480f3ea90f56d2e8679a0afc
hwmon: (core) Do not use device managed functions for memory allocations

commit 3bf8bdcf3bada771eb12b57f2a30caee69e8ab8d upstream.

The hwmon core uses device managed functions, tied to the hwmon parent
device, for various internal memory allocations. This is problematic
since hwmon device lifetime does not necessarily match its parent's
device lifetime. If there is a mismatch, memory leaks will accumulate
until the parent device is released.

Fix the problem by managing all memory allocations internally. The only
exception is memory allocation for thermal device registration, which
can be tied to the hwmon device, along with thermal device registration
itself.

Fixes: d560168b5d0f ("hwmon: (core) New hwmon registration API")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.14.x: 47c332deb8e8: hwmon: Deal with errors from the thermal subsystem
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.14.x: 74e3512731bd: hwmon: (core) Fix double-free in __hwmon_device_register()
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.9.x: 3a412d5e4a1c: hwmon: (core) Simplify sysfs attribute name allocation
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.9.x: 47c332deb8e8: hwmon: Deal with errors from the thermal subsystem
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.9.x: 74e3512731bd: hwmon: (core) Fix double-free in __hwmon_device_register()
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.9+
Cc: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/hwmon/hwmon.c