From: Yang Yingliang <yangyingliang@huawei.com>
To: Luben Tuikov <luben.tuikov@amd.com>,
<linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>,
<linux-f2fs-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>,
<linux-erofs@lists.ozlabs.org>, <ocfs2-devel@oss.oracle.com>,
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Cc: <rafael@kernel.org>, <somlo@cmu.edu>, <mst@redhat.com>,
<jaegeuk@kernel.org>, <chao@kernel.org>,
<hsiangkao@linux.alibaba.com>, <huangjianan@oppo.com>,
<mark@fasheh.com>, <jlbec@evilplan.org>,
<joseph.qi@linux.alibaba.com>, <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
<alexander.deucher@amd.com>, <richard@nod.at>,
<liushixin2@huawei.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/11] kset: fix documentation for kset_register()
Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2022 16:05:18 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <10d887c4-7db0-8958-f661-bd52e6c8b4af@huawei.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <eb0f1459-7980-4a7b-58f9-652eeccc357e@amd.com>
On 2022/10/21 13:34, Luben Tuikov wrote:
> On 2022-10-20 22:20, Yang Yingliang wrote:
>> kset_register() is currently used in some places without calling
>> kset_put() in error path, because the callers think it should be
>> kset internal thing to do, but the driver core can not know what
>> caller doing with that memory at times. The memory could be freed
>> both in kset_put() and error path of caller, if it is called in
>> kset_register().
>>
>> So make the function documentation more explicit about calling
>> kset_put() in the error path of caller.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Yang Yingliang <yangyingliang@huawei.com>
>> ---
>> lib/kobject.c | 3 +++
>> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/lib/kobject.c b/lib/kobject.c
>> index a0b2dbfcfa23..6da04353d974 100644
>> --- a/lib/kobject.c
>> +++ b/lib/kobject.c
>> @@ -834,6 +834,9 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(kobj_sysfs_ops);
>> /**
>> * kset_register() - Initialize and add a kset.
>> * @k: kset.
>> + *
>> + * If this function returns an error, kset_put() must be called to
>> + * properly clean up the memory associated with the object.
>> */
> And I'd continue the sentence, with " ... with the object,
> for instance the memory for the kset.kobj.name when kobj_set_name(&kset.kobj, format, ...)
> was called before calling kset_register()."
kobject_cleanup() not only frees name, but aslo calls ->release() to
free another resources.
>
> This makes it clear what we want to make sure is freed, in case of an early error
> from kset_register().
How about like this:
If this function returns an error, kset_put() must be called to clean up the name of
kset object and other memory associated with the object.
>
> Regards,
> Luben
>
>> int kset_register(struct kset *k)
>> {
> .
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Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-10-21 2:20 [PATCH 00/11] fix memory leak while kset_register() fails Yang Yingliang
2022-10-21 2:20 ` [PATCH 01/11] kset: fix documentation for kset_register() Yang Yingliang
2022-10-21 5:34 ` Luben Tuikov
2022-10-21 8:05 ` Yang Yingliang [this message]
2022-10-21 8:16 ` Greg KH
2022-10-21 8:18 ` Luben Tuikov
2022-10-21 2:20 ` [PATCH 02/11] kset: add null pointer check in kset_put() Yang Yingliang
2022-10-21 2:20 ` [PATCH 03/11] bus: fix possible memory leak in bus_register() Yang Yingliang
2022-10-21 2:20 ` [PATCH 04/11] kobject: fix possible memory leak in kset_create_and_add() Yang Yingliang
2022-10-21 2:20 ` [PATCH 05/11] class: fix possible memory leak in __class_register() Yang Yingliang
2022-10-21 2:20 ` [PATCH 06/11] firmware: qemu_fw_cfg: fix possible memory leak in fw_cfg_build_symlink() Yang Yingliang
2022-10-21 2:20 ` [PATCH 07/11] f2fs: fix possible memory leak in f2fs_init_sysfs() Yang Yingliang
2022-10-21 2:20 ` [PATCH 08/11] erofs: fix possible memory leak in erofs_init_sysfs() Yang Yingliang
2022-10-21 2:21 ` [PATCH 09/11] ocfs2: possible memory leak in mlog_sys_init() Yang Yingliang
2022-10-21 2:21 ` [PATCH 10/11] drm/amdgpu/discovery: fix possible memory leak Yang Yingliang
2022-10-21 2:21 ` [PATCH 11/11] ubifs: Fix memory leak in ubifs_sysfs_init() Yang Yingliang
2022-10-21 5:29 ` [PATCH 00/11] fix memory leak while kset_register() fails Luben Tuikov
2022-10-21 5:37 ` Greg KH
2022-10-21 7:55 ` Luben Tuikov
2022-10-21 8:18 ` Greg KH
2022-10-21 8:24 ` Luben Tuikov
2022-10-21 8:41 ` Luben Tuikov
2022-10-21 9:23 ` Yang Yingliang
2022-10-21 8:24 ` Yang Yingliang
2022-10-21 8:36 ` Greg KH
2022-10-21 8:52 ` Luben Tuikov
2022-10-21 8:59 ` Yang Yingliang
2022-10-21 9:08 ` Luben Tuikov
2022-10-21 9:56 ` Yang Yingliang
2022-10-21 23:45 ` Luben Tuikov
2022-10-21 9:12 ` Yang Yingliang
2022-10-21 23:48 ` Luben Tuikov
2022-10-21 7:25 ` Yang Yingliang
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