From: Felix Kuehling <felix.kuehling@amd.com>
To: Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@inria.fr>,
Markus Elfring <Markus.Elfring@web.de>
Cc: opensource.kernel@vivo.com, "David Airlie" <airlied@linux.ie>,
"Bernard Zhao" <bernard@vivo.com>,
kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org, amd-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org,
"Daniel Vetter" <daniel@ffwll.ch>,
"Alex Deucher" <alexander.deucher@amd.com>,
"Christian König" <christian.koenig@amd.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] drm/amd: Fix memory leak according to error branch
Date: Sat, 20 Jun 2020 10:56:24 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ac1afaeb-4f90-dafd-4fe4-06082edda36a@amd.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.22.394.2006201520590.2918@hadrien>
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Am 2020-06-20 um 9:21 a.m. schrieb Julia Lawall:
>
> On Sat, 20 Jun 2020, Markus Elfring wrote:
>
>>> The function kobject_init_and_add alloc memory like:
>>> kobject_init_and_add->kobject_add_varg->kobject_set_name_vargs
>>> ->kvasprintf_const->kstrdup_const->kstrdup->kmalloc_track_caller
>>> ->kmalloc_slab, in err branch this memory not free. If use
>>> kmemleak, this path maybe catched.
>>> These changes are to add kobject_put in kobject_init_and_add
>>> failed branch, fix potential memleak.
>> …
>>> Changes since V2:
>>> *remove duplicate kobject_put in kfd_procfs_init.
>> Under which circumstances are going to improve this change description accordingly?
> Bernard, please update the log message as well. The mail you sent was
> much more clear, but mail just gets lost over time. The log message
> itself should be improved.
Hi all,
The behaviour of kobject_init_and_add is documented in the kernel
source: https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v5.7.2/source/lib/kobject.c#L459:
* If this function returns an error, kobject_put() must be called to
* properly clean up the memory associated with the object. This is the
* same type of error handling after a call to kobject_add() and kobject
* lifetime rules are the same here.
No need to have a complicated explanation with a call stack in the
change description. Just point to the kernel documentation.
Regards,
Felix
>
> julia
>
>> Would you like to add the tag “Fixes” to the commit message?
>>
>> Regards,
>> Markus
> >
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2020-06-20 12:37 [PATCH v3] drm/amd: Fix memory leak according to error branch Markus Elfring
2020-06-20 13:21 ` Julia Lawall
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