This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
firmware: Fix a reference count leak.
to the 4.19-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
firmware-fix-a-reference-count-leak.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.19 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit dc291342512b2463fff81de0121544caddbe3047
Author: Qiushi Wu <wu000273@xxxxxxx>
Date: Sat Jun 13 14:05:33 2020 -0500
firmware: Fix a reference count leak.
[ Upstream commit fe3c60684377d5ad9b0569b87ed3e26e12c8173b ]
kobject_init_and_add() takes reference even when it fails.
If this function returns an error, kobject_put() must be called to
properly clean up the memory associated with the object.
Callback function fw_cfg_sysfs_release_entry() in kobject_put()
can handle the pointer "entry" properly.
Signed-off-by: Qiushi Wu <wu000273@xxxxxxx>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200613190533.15712-1-wu000273@xxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/drivers/firmware/qemu_fw_cfg.c b/drivers/firmware/qemu_fw_cfg.c
index 039e0f91dba8f..6945c3c966375 100644
--- a/drivers/firmware/qemu_fw_cfg.c
+++ b/drivers/firmware/qemu_fw_cfg.c
@@ -605,8 +605,10 @@ static int fw_cfg_register_file(const struct fw_cfg_file *f)
/* register entry under "/sys/firmware/qemu_fw_cfg/by_key/" */
err = kobject_init_and_add(&entry->kobj, &fw_cfg_sysfs_entry_ktype,
fw_cfg_sel_ko, "%d", entry->select);
- if (err)
- goto err_register;
+ if (err) {
+ kobject_put(&entry->kobj);
+ return err;
+ }
/* add raw binary content access */
err = sysfs_create_bin_file(&entry->kobj, &fw_cfg_sysfs_attr_raw);
@@ -622,7 +624,6 @@ static int fw_cfg_register_file(const struct fw_cfg_file *f)
err_add_raw:
kobject_del(&entry->kobj);
-err_register:
kfree(entry);
return err;
}
