From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S940924AbdAFWrF (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Jan 2017 17:47:05 -0500 Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:54896 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S968464AbdAFV4k (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Jan 2017 16:56:40 -0500 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , stable@vger.kernel.org, Johan Hovold , Alexander Shishkin Subject: [PATCH 4.9 055/116] stm class: Fix device leak in open error path Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2017 22:43:37 +0100 Message-Id: <20170106213911.358830354@linuxfoundation.org> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.11.0 In-Reply-To: <20170106213908.681421800@linuxfoundation.org> References: <20170106213908.681421800@linuxfoundation.org> User-Agent: quilt/0.65 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 4.9-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Johan Hovold commit a0ebf519b8a2666438d999c62995618c710573e5 upstream. Make sure to drop the reference taken by class_find_device() also on allocation errors in open(). Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold Fixes: 7bd1d4093c2f ("stm class: Introduce an abstraction for...") Signed-off-by: Alexander Shishkin Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- drivers/hwtracing/stm/core.c | 8 +++++--- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/hwtracing/stm/core.c +++ b/drivers/hwtracing/stm/core.c @@ -361,7 +361,7 @@ static int stm_char_open(struct inode *i struct stm_file *stmf; struct device *dev; unsigned int major = imajor(inode); - int err = -ENODEV; + int err = -ENOMEM; dev = class_find_device(&stm_class, NULL, &major, major_match); if (!dev) @@ -369,8 +369,9 @@ static int stm_char_open(struct inode *i stmf = kzalloc(sizeof(*stmf), GFP_KERNEL); if (!stmf) - return -ENOMEM; + goto err_put_device; + err = -ENODEV; stm_output_init(&stmf->output); stmf->stm = to_stm_device(dev); @@ -382,9 +383,10 @@ static int stm_char_open(struct inode *i return nonseekable_open(inode, file); err_free: + kfree(stmf); +err_put_device: /* matches class_find_device() above */ put_device(dev); - kfree(stmf); return err; }