From: Alex Estrin <alex.estrin@xxxxxxxxx> The dd refcount is speculatively incremented prior to allocating the fd memory with kzalloc(). If that kzalloc() failed the dd refcount leaks. Increment refcount on kzalloc success. Fixes: e11ffbd57520 ("IB/hfi1: Do not free hfi1 cdev parent structure early") Reviewed-by: Michael J Ruhl <michael.j.ruhl@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Alex Estrin <alex.estrin@xxxxxxxxx> Change-Id: I660296d5860205722b3db3d0c8b0746fd8f655ab --- Changes since v1: Change where we get the kobject. --- drivers/infiniband/hw/hfi1/file_ops.c | 4 +--- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/hw/hfi1/file_ops.c b/drivers/infiniband/hw/hfi1/file_ops.c index 7750a9c..543bce5 100644 --- a/drivers/infiniband/hw/hfi1/file_ops.c +++ b/drivers/infiniband/hw/hfi1/file_ops.c @@ -196,9 +196,6 @@ static int hfi1_file_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *fp) if (!atomic_inc_not_zero(&dd->user_refcount)) return -ENXIO; - /* Just take a ref now. Not all opens result in a context assign */ - kobject_get(&dd->kobj); - /* The real work is performed later in assign_ctxt() */ fd = kzalloc(sizeof(*fd), GFP_KERNEL); @@ -208,6 +205,7 @@ static int hfi1_file_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *fp) fd->mm = current->mm; mmgrab(fd->mm); fd->dd = dd; + kobject_get(&fd->dd->kobj); fp->private_data = fd; } else { fp->private_data = NULL; -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rdma" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html