[PATCH v2] macintosh: fix possible memory leak in macio_add_one_device()

Yang Yingliang yangyingliang at huawei.com
Fri Nov 4 14:25:51 AEDT 2022


Afer commit 1fa5ae857bb1 ("driver core: get rid of struct device's
bus_id string array"), the name of device is allocated dynamically,
it need be freed when of_device_register() fails, call put_device()
to give up the reference that hold in device_initialize(), so that
it can be freed in kobject_cleanup() when the refcount hit to 0.
macio device is freed in macio_release_dev(), so the kfree() can be
removed.

Fixes: 1fa5ae857bb1 ("driver core: get rid of struct device's bus_id string array")
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh at kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe at ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy at csgroup.eu>
Signed-off-by: Yang Yingliang <yangyingliang at huawei.com>
---
v1 -> v2:
  Add fix tag.
---
 drivers/macintosh/macio_asic.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/macintosh/macio_asic.c b/drivers/macintosh/macio_asic.c
index 1ec1e5984563..3bc1f374e657 100644
--- a/drivers/macintosh/macio_asic.c
+++ b/drivers/macintosh/macio_asic.c
@@ -424,7 +424,7 @@ static struct macio_dev * macio_add_one_device(struct macio_chip *chip,
 	if (of_device_register(&dev->ofdev) != 0) {
 		printk(KERN_DEBUG"macio: device registration error for %s!\n",
 		       dev_name(&dev->ofdev.dev));
-		kfree(dev);
+		put_device(&dev->ofdev.dev);
 		return NULL;
 	}
 
-- 
2.25.1



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