From: Wolfram Sang Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2023 09:19:52 +0000 (+0200) Subject: i2c: fix memleak in i2c_new_client_device() X-Git-Tag: v6.6.7~888 X-Git-Url: http://review.tizen.org/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=bd62916b7a72c09fde12fcd0199906051fb9ed76;p=platform%2Fkernel%2Flinux-starfive.git i2c: fix memleak in i2c_new_client_device() [ Upstream commit 6af79f7fe748fe6a3c5c3a63d7f35981a82c2769 ] Yang Yingliang reported a memleak: === I got memory leak as follows when doing fault injection test: unreferenced object 0xffff888014aec078 (size 8): comm "xrun", pid 356, jiffies 4294910619 (age 16.332s) hex dump (first 8 bytes): 31 2d 30 30 31 63 00 00 1-001c.. backtrace: [<00000000eb56c0a9>] __kmalloc_track_caller+0x1a6/0x300 [<000000000b220ea3>] kvasprintf+0xad/0x140 [<00000000b83203e5>] kvasprintf_const+0x62/0x190 [<000000002a5eab37>] kobject_set_name_vargs+0x56/0x140 [<00000000300ac279>] dev_set_name+0xb0/0xe0 [<00000000b66ebd6f>] i2c_new_client_device+0x7e4/0x9a0 If device_register() returns error in i2c_new_client_device(), the name allocated by i2c_dev_set_name() need be freed. As comment of device_register() says, it should use put_device() to give up the reference in the error path. === I think this solution is less intrusive and more robust than he originally proposed solutions, though. Reported-by: Yang Yingliang Closes: http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/linux-i2c/patch/20221124085448.3620240-1-yangyingliang@huawei.com/ Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin --- diff --git a/drivers/i2c/i2c-core-base.c b/drivers/i2c/i2c-core-base.c index 6074665..7f30bcce 100644 --- a/drivers/i2c/i2c-core-base.c +++ b/drivers/i2c/i2c-core-base.c @@ -931,8 +931,9 @@ int i2c_dev_irq_from_resources(const struct resource *resources, struct i2c_client * i2c_new_client_device(struct i2c_adapter *adap, struct i2c_board_info const *info) { - struct i2c_client *client; - int status; + struct i2c_client *client; + bool need_put = false; + int status; client = kzalloc(sizeof *client, GFP_KERNEL); if (!client) @@ -970,7 +971,6 @@ i2c_new_client_device(struct i2c_adapter *adap, struct i2c_board_info const *inf client->dev.fwnode = info->fwnode; device_enable_async_suspend(&client->dev); - i2c_dev_set_name(adap, client, info); if (info->swnode) { status = device_add_software_node(&client->dev, info->swnode); @@ -982,6 +982,7 @@ i2c_new_client_device(struct i2c_adapter *adap, struct i2c_board_info const *inf } } + i2c_dev_set_name(adap, client, info); status = device_register(&client->dev); if (status) goto out_remove_swnode; @@ -993,6 +994,7 @@ i2c_new_client_device(struct i2c_adapter *adap, struct i2c_board_info const *inf out_remove_swnode: device_remove_software_node(&client->dev); + need_put = true; out_err_put_of_node: of_node_put(info->of_node); out_err: @@ -1000,7 +1002,10 @@ out_err: "Failed to register i2c client %s at 0x%02x (%d)\n", client->name, client->addr, status); out_err_silent: - kfree(client); + if (need_put) + put_device(&client->dev); + else + kfree(client); return ERR_PTR(status); } EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(i2c_new_client_device);