Hi Eduardo,
On Fri, May 17, 2019 at 04:13:37PM -0700, Eduardo Valentin wrote:
> When registering a hwmon device with HWMON_C_REGISTER_TZ flag
> in place, the hwmon subsystem will attempt to register the device
> also with the thermal subsystem. When the of-thermal registration
> fails, __hwmon_device_register jumps to ida_remove, leaving
> the locally allocated hwdev pointer and also the hdev registered.
>
> This patch fixes both issues by jumping to a new label that
> will first unregister hdev and the fall into the kfree of hwdev
> to finally remove the idas and propagate the error code.
>
> Cc: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@xxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: linux-hwmon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Signed-off-by: Eduardo Valentin <eduval@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/hwmon/hwmon.c | 4 +++-
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/hwmon/hwmon.c b/drivers/hwmon/hwmon.c
> index 6b3559f58b67..6f1194952189 100644
> --- a/drivers/hwmon/hwmon.c
> +++ b/drivers/hwmon/hwmon.c
> @@ -637,7 +637,7 @@ __hwmon_device_register(struct device *dev, const char *name, void *drvdata,
> hwdev, j);
> if (err) {
> device_unregister(hdev);
> - goto ida_remove;
> + goto device_unregister;
Good find, but device_unregister() is already called above.
You need to either remove that, or replace the goto to point to free_hwmon.
The new label would probably the cleaner solution since it follows the
coding style.
Thanks
Guenter
> }
> }
> }
> @@ -646,6 +646,8 @@ __hwmon_device_register(struct device *dev, const char *name, void *drvdata,
>
> return hdev;
>
> +device_unregister:
> + device_unregister(hdev);
> free_hwmon:
> kfree(hwdev);
> ida_remove:
> --
> 2.21.0
>
