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

Yang Yingliang yangyingliang at huawei.com
Sat Oct 22 19:36:44 AEDT 2022


dev_set_name() in macio_add_one_device() allocates memory for name,
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.

Signed-off-by: Yang Yingliang <yangyingliang at huawei.com>
---
 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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