This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
watchdog: Fix memleak in watchdog_cdev_register
to the 5.9-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:
watchdog-fix-memleak-in-watchdog_cdev_register.patch
and it can be found in the queue-5.9 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit 7c08ef6fb9c4632440b675653353360ddd0df27f
Author: Dinghao Liu <dinghao.liu@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon Aug 24 10:40:01 2020 +0800
watchdog: Fix memleak in watchdog_cdev_register
[ Upstream commit 5afb6d203d0293512aa2c6ae098274a2a4f6ed02 ]
When watchdog_kworker is NULL, we should free wd_data
before the function returns to prevent memleak.
Fixes: 664a39236e718 ("watchdog: Introduce hardware maximum heartbeat in watchdog core")
Signed-off-by: Dinghao Liu <dinghao.liu@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200824024001.25474-1-dinghao.liu@xxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/drivers/watchdog/watchdog_dev.c b/drivers/watchdog/watchdog_dev.c
index 6798addabd5a0..785270ee337cb 100644
--- a/drivers/watchdog/watchdog_dev.c
+++ b/drivers/watchdog/watchdog_dev.c
@@ -994,8 +994,10 @@ static int watchdog_cdev_register(struct watchdog_device *wdd)
wd_data->wdd = wdd;
wdd->wd_data = wd_data;
- if (IS_ERR_OR_NULL(watchdog_kworker))
+ if (IS_ERR_OR_NULL(watchdog_kworker)) {
+ kfree(wd_data);
return -ENODEV;
+ }
device_initialize(&wd_data->dev);
wd_data->dev.devt = MKDEV(MAJOR(watchdog_devt), wdd->id);
