FAILED: patch "[PATCH] thermal: int340x: fix memory leak in int3400_notify()" failed to apply to 4.14-stable tree

From: <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: chuansheng.liu@intel.com, rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com,
	stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: FAILED: patch "[PATCH] thermal: int340x: fix memory leak in int3400_notify()" failed to apply to 4.14-stable tree
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2022 08:01:44 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <16460317043746@kroah.com> (raw)


The patch below does not apply to the 4.14-stable tree.
If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm
tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit
id to <stable@vger.kernel.org>.

thanks,

greg k-h

------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------

From 3abea10e6a8f0e7804ed4c124bea2d15aca977c8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Chuansheng Liu <chuansheng.liu@intel.com>
Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2022 08:20:24 +0800
Subject: [PATCH] thermal: int340x: fix memory leak in int3400_notify()

It is easy to hit the below memory leaks in my TigerLake platform:

unreferenced object 0xffff927c8b91dbc0 (size 32):
  comm "kworker/0:2", pid 112, jiffies 4294893323 (age 83.604s)
  hex dump (first 32 bytes):
    4e 41 4d 45 3d 49 4e 54 33 34 30 30 20 54 68 65  NAME=INT3400 The
    72 6d 61 6c 00 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b a5  rmal.kkkkkkkkkk.
  backtrace:
    [<ffffffff9c502c3e>] __kmalloc_track_caller+0x2fe/0x4a0
    [<ffffffff9c7b7c15>] kvasprintf+0x65/0xd0
    [<ffffffff9c7b7d6e>] kasprintf+0x4e/0x70
    [<ffffffffc04cb662>] int3400_notify+0x82/0x120 [int3400_thermal]
    [<ffffffff9c8b7358>] acpi_ev_notify_dispatch+0x54/0x71
    [<ffffffff9c88f1a7>] acpi_os_execute_deferred+0x17/0x30
    [<ffffffff9c2c2c0a>] process_one_work+0x21a/0x3f0
    [<ffffffff9c2c2e2a>] worker_thread+0x4a/0x3b0
    [<ffffffff9c2cb4dd>] kthread+0xfd/0x130
    [<ffffffff9c201c1f>] ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30

Fix it by calling kfree() accordingly.

Fixes: 38e44da59130 ("thermal: int3400_thermal: process "thermal table changed" event")
Signed-off-by: Chuansheng Liu <chuansheng.liu@intel.com>
Cc: 4.14+ <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 4.14+
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>

diff --git a/drivers/thermal/intel/int340x_thermal/int3400_thermal.c b/drivers/thermal/intel/int340x_thermal/int3400_thermal.c
index 72acb1f61849..4f478812cb51 100644
--- a/drivers/thermal/intel/int340x_thermal/int3400_thermal.c
+++ b/drivers/thermal/intel/int340x_thermal/int3400_thermal.c
@@ -404,6 +404,10 @@ static void int3400_notify(acpi_handle handle,
 	thermal_prop[3] = kasprintf(GFP_KERNEL, "EVENT=%d", therm_event);
 	thermal_prop[4] = NULL;
 	kobject_uevent_env(&priv->thermal->device.kobj, KOBJ_CHANGE, thermal_prop);
+	kfree(thermal_prop[0]);
+	kfree(thermal_prop[1]);
+	kfree(thermal_prop[2]);
+	kfree(thermal_prop[3]);
 }
 
 static int int3400_thermal_get_temp(struct thermal_zone_device *thermal,

