This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
dmaengine: idxd: Fix the error handling path in idxd_cdev_register()
to the 5.18-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:
dmaengine-idxd-fix-the-error-handling-path-in-idxd_c.patch
and it can be found in the queue-5.18 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit ba5a03890e8d1c3c5518a2d25ea8f299bc59a4e5
Author: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu Apr 21 08:13:38 2022 +0200
dmaengine: idxd: Fix the error handling path in idxd_cdev_register()
[ Upstream commit aab08c1aac01097815fbcf10fce7021d2396a31f ]
If a call to alloc_chrdev_region() fails, the already allocated resources
are leaking.
Add the needed error handling path to fix the leak.
Fixes: 42d279f9137a ("dmaengine: idxd: add char driver to expose submission portal to userland")
Signed-off-by: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@xxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1b5033dcc87b5f2a953c413f0306e883e6114542.1650521591.git.christophe.jaillet@xxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Vinod Koul <vkoul@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/drivers/dma/idxd/cdev.c b/drivers/dma/idxd/cdev.c
index b9b2b4a4124e..033df43db0ce 100644
--- a/drivers/dma/idxd/cdev.c
+++ b/drivers/dma/idxd/cdev.c
@@ -369,10 +369,16 @@ int idxd_cdev_register(void)
rc = alloc_chrdev_region(&ictx[i].devt, 0, MINORMASK,
ictx[i].name);
if (rc)
- return rc;
+ goto err_free_chrdev_region;
}
return 0;
+
+err_free_chrdev_region:
+ for (i--; i >= 0; i--)
+ unregister_chrdev_region(ictx[i].devt, MINORMASK);
+
+ return rc;
}
void idxd_cdev_remove(void)
