[PATCH] powerpc/pseries: fix possible memory leak in ibmebus_bus_init()

ruanjinjie ruanjinjie at huawei.com
Thu Nov 10 12:19:29 AEDT 2022


If device_register() returns error in ibmebus_bus_init(), name of kobject
which is allocated in dev_set_name() called in device_add() is leaked.

As comment of device_add() says, it should call put_device() to drop
the reference count that was set in device_initialize() when it fails,
so the name can be freed in kobject_cleanup().

Signed-off-by: ruanjinjie <ruanjinjie at huawei.com>
---
 arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/ibmebus.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/ibmebus.c b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/ibmebus.c
index a870cada7acd..ed5fc70b7353 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/ibmebus.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/ibmebus.c
@@ -455,6 +455,7 @@ static int __init ibmebus_bus_init(void)
 	if (err) {
 		printk(KERN_WARNING "%s: device_register returned %i\n",
 		       __func__, err);
+		put_device(&ibmebus_bus_device);
 		bus_unregister(&ibmebus_bus_type);
 
 		return err;
-- 
2.25.1



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