From 2899872b627e99b7586fe3b6c9f861da1b4d5072 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Daniel Baluta Date: Fri, 17 May 2019 13:23:49 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] regmap: debugfs: Fix memory leak in regmap_debugfs_init As detected by kmemleak running on i.MX6ULL board: nreferenced object 0xd8366600 (size 64): comm "swapper/0", pid 1, jiffies 4294937370 (age 933.220s) hex dump (first 32 bytes): 64 75 6d 6d 79 2d 69 6f 6d 75 78 63 2d 67 70 72 dummy-iomuxc-gpr 40 32 30 65 34 30 30 30 00 e3 f3 ab fe d1 1b dd @20e4000........ backtrace: [] kasprintf+0x2c/0x54 [] regmap_debugfs_init+0x7c/0x31c [<9c8d91fa>] __regmap_init+0xb5c/0xcf4 [<5b1c3d2a>] of_syscon_register+0x164/0x2c4 [<596a5d80>] syscon_node_to_regmap+0x64/0x90 [<49bd597b>] imx6ul_init_machine+0x34/0xa0 [<250a4dac>] customize_machine+0x1c/0x30 [<2d19fdaf>] do_one_initcall+0x7c/0x398 [] kernel_init_freeable+0x328/0x448 [<168c9101>] kernel_init+0x8/0x114 [<913268aa>] ret_from_fork+0x14/0x20 [] 0x0 Root cause is that map->debugfs_name is allocated using kasprintf and then the pointer is lost by assigning it other memory address. Reported-by: Stefan Wahren Signed-off-by: Daniel Baluta Signed-off-by: Mark Brown --- drivers/base/regmap/regmap-debugfs.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/base/regmap/regmap-debugfs.c b/drivers/base/regmap/regmap-debugfs.c index 263f825..e5e1b3a 100644 --- a/drivers/base/regmap/regmap-debugfs.c +++ b/drivers/base/regmap/regmap-debugfs.c @@ -579,6 +579,8 @@ void regmap_debugfs_init(struct regmap *map, const char *name) } if (!strcmp(name, "dummy")) { + kfree(map->debugfs_name); + map->debugfs_name = kasprintf(GFP_KERNEL, "dummy%d", dummy_index); name = map->debugfs_name; -- 2.7.4