From: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
To: Eduardo Valentin <eduval@amazon.com>
Cc: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.com>,
linux-hwmon@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] hwmon: core: fix potential memory leak in *hwmon_device_register*
Date: Tue, 28 May 2019 08:06:40 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190528150640.GA5516@roeck-us.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190517231337.27859-3-eduval@amazon.com>
Hi Eduardo,
On Fri, May 17, 2019 at 04:13:37PM -0700, Eduardo Valentin wrote:
> When registering a hwmon device with HWMON_C_REGISTER_TZ flag
> in place, the hwmon subsystem will attempt to register the device
> also with the thermal subsystem. When the of-thermal registration
> fails, __hwmon_device_register jumps to ida_remove, leaving
> the locally allocated hwdev pointer and also the hdev registered.
>
> This patch fixes both issues by jumping to a new label that
> will first unregister hdev and the fall into the kfree of hwdev
> to finally remove the idas and propagate the error code.
>
> Cc: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.com>
> Cc: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
> Cc: linux-hwmon@vger.kernel.org
> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Eduardo Valentin <eduval@amazon.com>
> ---
> drivers/hwmon/hwmon.c | 4 +++-
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/hwmon/hwmon.c b/drivers/hwmon/hwmon.c
> index 6b3559f58b67..6f1194952189 100644
> --- a/drivers/hwmon/hwmon.c
> +++ b/drivers/hwmon/hwmon.c
> @@ -637,7 +637,7 @@ __hwmon_device_register(struct device *dev, const char *name, void *drvdata,
> hwdev, j);
> if (err) {
> device_unregister(hdev);
> - goto ida_remove;
> + goto device_unregister;
Good find, but device_unregister() is already called above.
You need to either remove that, or replace the goto to point to free_hwmon.
The new label would probably the cleaner solution since it follows the
coding style.
Thanks
Guenter
> }
> }
> }
> @@ -646,6 +646,8 @@ __hwmon_device_register(struct device *dev, const char *name, void *drvdata,
>
> return hdev;
>
> +device_unregister:
> + device_unregister(hdev);
> free_hwmon:
> kfree(hwdev);
> ida_remove:
> --
> 2.21.0
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-05-28 15:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <20190517231337.27859-1-eduval@amazon.com>
2019-05-17 23:13 ` [PATCH 1/2] hwmon: core: add thermal sensors only if dev->of_node is present Eduardo Valentin
2019-05-28 15:08 ` Guenter Roeck
2019-05-29 23:12 ` Eduardo Valentin
2019-05-17 23:13 ` [PATCH 2/2] hwmon: core: fix potential memory leak in *hwmon_device_register* Eduardo Valentin
2019-05-28 15:06 ` Guenter Roeck [this message]
2019-05-29 23:14 ` Eduardo Valentin
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