From: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
To: wu000273@umn.edu
Cc: kjlu@umn.edu, Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@kernel.org>,
Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>,
James Morse <james.morse@arm.com>,
Robert Richter <rrichter@marvell.com>,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>,
Doug Thompson <dougthompson@xmission.com>,
linux-edac@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] edac: Fix reference count leak in edac_pci_main_kobj_setup.
Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2020 15:56:03 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200617135603.GF10118@zn.tnic> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200528202238.18078-1-wu000273@umn.edu>
On Thu, May 28, 2020 at 03:22:37PM -0500, wu000273@umn.edu wrote:
> From: Qiushi Wu <wu000273@umn.edu>
>
> kobject_init_and_add() should be handled when it return an error,
> because kobject_init_and_add() takes reference even when it fails.
> If this function returns an error, kobject_put() must be called to
> properly clean up the memory associated with the object. Previous
> commit "b8eb718348b8" fixed a similar problem. Thus replace calling
> kfree() by calling kobject_put().
>
> Fixes: b2ed215a3338 ("Kobject: change drivers/edac to use kobject_init_and_add")
> Signed-off-by: Qiushi Wu <wu000273@umn.edu>
> ---
> drivers/edac/edac_pci_sysfs.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/edac/edac_pci_sysfs.c b/drivers/edac/edac_pci_sysfs.c
> index 72c9eb9fdffb..53042af7262e 100644
> --- a/drivers/edac/edac_pci_sysfs.c
> +++ b/drivers/edac/edac_pci_sysfs.c
> @@ -386,7 +386,7 @@ static int edac_pci_main_kobj_setup(void)
>
> /* Error unwind statck */
> kobject_init_and_add_fail:
> - kfree(edac_pci_top_main_kobj);
> + kobject_put(edac_pci_top_main_kobj);
>
> kzalloc_fail:
> module_put(THIS_MODULE);
> --
This and
https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200528203526.20908-1-wu000273@umn.edu
merged into a single patch and applied.
Thx.
--
Regards/Gruss,
Boris.
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