On 11/30/17 08:37, Frank Rowand wrote: > Hi Colin, Rob, > > On 11/30/17 07:18, Colin Ian King wrote: >> On 30/11/17 12:14, Frank Rowand wrote: >>> On 11/29/17 14:17, Colin King wrote: >>>> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> >>>> >>>> Currently if the call to of_resolve_phandles fails then then ovcs >>>> is not kfree'd on the error exit path. Rather than try and make >>>> the clean up exit path more convoluted, fix this by just kfree'ing >>>> ovcs at the point of error detection and exit via the same exit >>>> path. >>>> >>>> Detected by CoverityScan, CID#1462296 ("Resource Leak") >>>> >>>> Fixes: f948d6d8b792 ("of: overlay: avoid race condition between applying multiple overlays") >>>> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> >>>> --- >>>> drivers/of/overlay.c | 4 +++- >>>> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) >>>> >>>> diff --git a/drivers/of/overlay.c b/drivers/of/overlay.c >>>> index 53bc9e3f0b98..6c8efe7d8cbb 100644 >>>> --- a/drivers/of/overlay.c >>>> +++ b/drivers/of/overlay.c >>>> @@ -708,8 +708,10 @@ int of_overlay_apply(struct device_node *tree, int *ovcs_id) >>>> of_overlay_mutex_lock(); >>>> >>>> ret = of_resolve_phandles(tree); >>>> - if (ret) >>>> + if (ret) { >>>> + kfree(ovcs); >>>> goto err_overlay_unlock; >>>> + } >>>> >>>> mutex_lock(&of_mutex); >>>> >>>> >>> >>> False coverity warning. ovcs is freed in free_overlay_changeset(). >>> >> >> The error exit path is via err_overlay_unlock: >> >> err_overlay_unlock: >> of_overlay_mutex_unlock(); >> >> out: >> pr_debug("%s() err=%d\n", __func__, ret); >> >> return ret; >> >> ..so there is no call to free_overlay_changeset there. >> >> Colin >> > > OK, I was looking at 4.15-rc1. You must be looking at a later version where > "[PATCH 1/2] of: overlay: Fix cleanup order in of_overlay_apply()" has been > applied. Thanks for providing the extra details about the exit path so I > could see that. > > Rob, I think that the fix for cleanup order was not the best way to fix that > problem. A better method would have been to move "mutex_lock(&of_mutex);" > up 5 lines, to just before calling of_reserve_phandles(). It is getting late (midnight my time), so I really should revisit this all tomorrow. My last comment ("move ... up 5 lines") is probably wrong. I'll look at this after some sleep. > The problem > found by coverity was caused by the "Fix cleanup order" patch. > > I can create that alternate fix if you would like, but I am traveling > right now and don't want to submit a patch without boot testing, so > there will be a slight delay. > > -Frank -- 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