From b2a431915d19893f047e0dd149d0c1b9d2a0b960 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Petr Malat Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2013 01:01:52 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] phy: Fix phy_device_free memory leak Fix memory leak in phy_device_free() for the case when phy_device* returned by phy_device_create() is not registered in the system. Bug description: phy_device_create() sets name of kobject using dev_set_name(), which allocates memory using kvasprintf(), but this memory isn't freed if the underlying device isn't registered properly, because kobject_cleanup() is not called in that case. This can happen (and actually is happening on our machines) if phy_device_register(), called by mdiobus_scan(), fails. Patch description: Embedded struct device is initialized in phy_device_create() and it counterpart phy_device_free() just drops one reference to the device, which leads to proper deinitialization including releasing the kobject name memory. Signed-off-by: Petr Malat Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c | 10 ++++++---- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c b/drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c index 9930f99..3657b4a 100644 --- a/drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c +++ b/drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c @@ -44,13 +44,13 @@ MODULE_LICENSE("GPL"); void phy_device_free(struct phy_device *phydev) { - kfree(phydev); + put_device(&phydev->dev); } EXPORT_SYMBOL(phy_device_free); static void phy_device_release(struct device *dev) { - phy_device_free(to_phy_device(dev)); + kfree(to_phy_device(dev)); } static struct phy_driver genphy_driver; @@ -201,6 +201,8 @@ struct phy_device *phy_device_create(struct mii_bus *bus, int addr, int phy_id, there's no driver _already_ loaded. */ request_module(MDIO_MODULE_PREFIX MDIO_ID_FMT, MDIO_ID_ARGS(phy_id)); + device_initialize(&dev->dev); + return dev; } EXPORT_SYMBOL(phy_device_create); @@ -363,9 +365,9 @@ int phy_device_register(struct phy_device *phydev) /* Run all of the fixups for this PHY */ phy_scan_fixups(phydev); - err = device_register(&phydev->dev); + err = device_add(&phydev->dev); if (err) { - pr_err("phy %d failed to register\n", phydev->addr); + pr_err("PHY %d failed to add\n", phydev->addr); goto out; } -- 2.7.4