This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
hwmon: Fix possible memleak in __hwmon_device_register()
to the 4.14-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:
hwmon-fix-possible-memleak-in-__hwmon_device_registe.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.14 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit ac90c0bc8908ba836995ec7e317806930df15d72
Author: Yang Yingliang <yangyingliang@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue Oct 12 19:27:58 2021 +0800
hwmon: Fix possible memleak in __hwmon_device_register()
[ Upstream commit ada61aa0b1184a8fda1a89a340c7d6cc4e59aee5 ]
I got memory leak as follows when doing fault injection test:
unreferenced object 0xffff888102740438 (size 8):
comm "27", pid 859, jiffies 4295031351 (age 143.992s)
hex dump (first 8 bytes):
68 77 6d 6f 6e 30 00 00 hwmon0..
backtrace:
[<00000000544b5996>] __kmalloc_track_caller+0x1a6/0x300
[<00000000df0d62b9>] kvasprintf+0xad/0x140
[<00000000d3d2a3da>] kvasprintf_const+0x62/0x190
[<000000005f8f0f29>] kobject_set_name_vargs+0x56/0x140
[<00000000b739e4b9>] dev_set_name+0xb0/0xe0
[<0000000095b69c25>] __hwmon_device_register+0xf19/0x1e50 [hwmon]
[<00000000a7e65b52>] hwmon_device_register_with_info+0xcb/0x110 [hwmon]
[<000000006f181e86>] devm_hwmon_device_register_with_info+0x85/0x100 [hwmon]
[<0000000081bdc567>] tmp421_probe+0x2d2/0x465 [tmp421]
[<00000000502cc3f8>] i2c_device_probe+0x4e1/0xbb0
[<00000000f90bda3b>] really_probe+0x285/0xc30
[<000000007eac7b77>] __driver_probe_device+0x35f/0x4f0
[<000000004953d43d>] driver_probe_device+0x4f/0x140
[<000000002ada2d41>] __device_attach_driver+0x24c/0x330
[<00000000b3977977>] bus_for_each_drv+0x15d/0x1e0
[<000000005bf2a8e3>] __device_attach+0x267/0x410
When device_register() returns an error, the name allocated in
dev_set_name() will be leaked, the put_device() should be used
instead of calling hwmon_dev_release() to give up the device
reference, then the name will be freed in kobject_cleanup().
Reported-by: Hulk Robot <hulkci@xxxxxxxxxx>
Fixes: bab2243ce189 ("hwmon: Introduce hwmon_device_register_with_groups")
Signed-off-by: Yang Yingliang <yangyingliang@xxxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211012112758.2681084-1-yangyingliang@xxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/drivers/hwmon/hwmon.c b/drivers/hwmon/hwmon.c
index 652973d83a07e..b1b5c1e97a430 100644
--- a/drivers/hwmon/hwmon.c
+++ b/drivers/hwmon/hwmon.c
@@ -627,8 +627,10 @@ __hwmon_device_register(struct device *dev, const char *name, void *drvdata,
dev_set_drvdata(hdev, drvdata);
dev_set_name(hdev, HWMON_ID_FORMAT, id);
err = device_register(hdev);
- if (err)
- goto free_hwmon;
+ if (err) {
+ put_device(hdev);
+ goto ida_remove;
+ }
if (dev && dev->of_node && chip && chip->ops->read &&
chip->info[0]->type == hwmon_chip &&
