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From: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
To: "wanghai (M)" <wanghai26@huawei.com>
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>,
	davem@davemloft.net, idosch@mellanox.com,
	alexander.h.duyck@intel.com, tyhicks@canonical.com,
	f.fainelli@gmail.com, amritha.nambiar@intel.com, joe@perches.com,
	dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net-sysfs: Fix memory leak in netdev_register_kobject
Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2019 12:30:37 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190319103037.GD9224@smile.fi.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c1c266af-7aaa-00a7-aa7a-e61c65665741@huawei.com>

On Tue, Mar 19, 2019 at 11:19:24AM +0800, wanghai (M) wrote:
> 
> 在 2019/3/19 0:19, Andy Shevchenko 写道:
> > On Mon, Mar 18, 2019 at 08:57:24AM -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> > > On Tue, 19 Mar 2019 01:06:57 -0400
> > > Wang Hai <wanghai26@huawei.com> wrote:

> > > This looks a bug in device_add() not here.
> > > In general, it is better for an api to clean up after itself.
> > > Since dev->kobj.name is created in device_add and normally freed
> > > in device_del; why is device_add leaving it behind?
> > It's more likely the bug in syzkaller.
> > 
> > Look at the kobject_cleanup() last lines of code...
> If device_add(dev) or register_queue_kobjects(ndev) fails,
> In register_netdevice(), dev-> reg_state = NETREG_UNINITIALIZED and returns
> an error, causing put_device(&dev-> dev) -> ..-> kobject_cleanup() not to be
> called.

OK, that's true, but your patch is wrong.
See error handling in device_create_groups_vargs() for example.

-- 
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko



  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-03-19 10:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-03-19  5:06 [PATCH] net-sysfs: Fix memory leak in netdev_register_kobject Wang Hai
2019-03-18 15:57 ` Stephen Hemminger
2019-03-18 16:19   ` Andy Shevchenko
     [not found]     ` <c1c266af-7aaa-00a7-aa7a-e61c65665741@huawei.com>
2019-03-19 10:30       ` Andy Shevchenko [this message]
     [not found]         ` <18553079-7bbd-fcfe-ef1c-6717e963e0a5@huawei.com>
2019-03-19 14:00           ` Andy Shevchenko
2019-03-19 15:44           ` Stephen Hemminger
2019-03-19  3:03   ` wanghai (M)
2019-03-19  3:15     ` Stephen Hemminger
2019-03-19  3:39       ` wanghai (M)
2019-03-19 10:22         ` Andy Shevchenko
2019-03-18 18:02 ` Eric Dumazet
2019-03-19  3:47   ` wanghai (M)

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