On Wed, Jun 15, 2016 at 1:13 PM, Frank Rowand <frowand.list@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > From: Frank Rowand <frank.rowand@xxxxxxxxxxx> > > Fix a memory leak resulting from memory allocation in safe_name(). > This patch fixes all call sites of safe_name(). > > Mathieu Malaterre reported the memory leak on boot: > > On my PowerMac device-tree would generate a duplicate name: > > [ 0.023043] device-tree: Duplicate name in PowerPC,G4@0, renamed to "l2-cache#1" > > in this case a newly allocated name is generated by `safe_name`. However > in this case it is never deallocated. > > The bug was found using kmemleak reported as: > > unreferenced object 0xdf532e60 (size 32): > comm "swapper", pid 1, jiffies 4294892300 (age 1993.532s) > hex dump (first 32 bytes): > 6c 32 2d 63 61 63 68 65 23 31 00 dd e4 dd 1e c2 l2-cache#1...... > ec d4 ba ce 04 ec cc de 8e 85 e9 ca c4 ec cc 9e ................ > backtrace: > [<c02d3350>] kvasprintf+0x64/0xc8 > [<c02d3400>] kasprintf+0x4c/0x5c > [<c0453814>] safe_name.isra.1+0x80/0xc4 > [<c04545d8>] __of_attach_node_sysfs+0x6c/0x11c > [<c075f21c>] of_core_init+0x8c/0xf8 > [<c0729594>] kernel_init_freeable+0xd4/0x208 > [<c00047e8>] kernel_init+0x24/0x11c > [<c00158ec>] ret_from_kernel_thread+0x5c/0x64 > > Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=120331 > > Signed-off-by: Frank Rowand <frank.rowand@xxxxxxxxxxx> > Reported-by: mathieu.malaterre@xxxxxxxxx [...] > Index: b/include/linux/of.h > =================================================================== > --- a/include/linux/of.h > +++ b/include/linux/of.h > @@ -121,6 +121,8 @@ static inline int of_node_is_attached(st > #ifdef CONFIG_OF_DYNAMIC > extern struct device_node *of_node_get(struct device_node *node); > extern void of_node_put(struct device_node *node); > +extern void __of_sysfs_remove_bin_file(struct device_node *np, > + struct property *prop); Should be internal to DT code, right? > #else /* CONFIG_OF_DYNAMIC */ > /* Dummy ref counting routines - to be implemented later */ > static inline struct device_node *of_node_get(struct device_node *node) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe devicetree" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
