From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
To: Pavel Skripkin <paskripkin@gmail.com>
Cc: andrew@lunn.ch, hkallweit1@gmail.com, linux@armlinux.org.uk,
davem@davemloft.net, kuba@kernel.org, buytenh@marvell.com,
afleming@freescale.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
syzbot+398e7dc692ddbbb4cfec@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] phy: mdio: fix memory leak
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2021 09:22:26 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210929062226.GR2083@kadam> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <55e9785e2ae2eae03c4af850a07e3297c5a0b784.1632861239.git.paskripkin@gmail.com>
On Tue, Sep 28, 2021 at 11:40:15PM +0300, Pavel Skripkin wrote:
> Syzbot reported memory leak in MDIO bus interface, the problem was in
> wrong state logic.
>
> MDIOBUS_ALLOCATED indicates 2 states:
> 1. Bus is only allocated
> 2. Bus allocated and __mdiobus_register() fails, but
> device_register() was called
>
> In case of device_register() has been called we should call put_device()
> to correctly free the memory allocated for this device, but mdiobus_free()
> calls just kfree(dev) in case of MDIOBUS_ALLOCATED state
>
> To avoid this behaviour we need to set bus->state to MDIOBUS_UNREGISTERED
> _before_ calling device_register(), because put_device() should be
> called even in case of device_register() failure.
>
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/YVMRWNDZDUOvQjHL@shell.armlinux.org.uk/
> Fixes: 46abc02175b3 ("phylib: give mdio buses a device tree presence")
> Reported-and-tested-by: syzbot+398e7dc692ddbbb4cfec@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
> Signed-off-by: Pavel Skripkin <paskripkin@gmail.com>
Thanks!
Reviewed-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
regards,
dan carpenter
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-09-29 6:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-09-27 11:20 [PATCH] phy: mdio: fix memory leak Pavel Skripkin
2021-09-27 19:17 ` Pavel Skripkin
2021-09-28 20:39 ` [PATCH v2 1/2] Revert "net: mdiobus: Fix memory leak in __mdiobus_register" Pavel Skripkin
2021-09-28 20:40 ` [PATCH v2 2/2] phy: mdio: fix memory leak Pavel Skripkin
2021-09-29 6:22 ` Dan Carpenter [this message]
2021-09-29 23:48 ` Jakub Kicinski
2021-09-30 5:55 ` Pavel Skripkin
2021-09-29 6:32 ` [PATCH v2 1/2] Revert "net: mdiobus: Fix memory leak in __mdiobus_register" Xu, Yanfei
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