This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
driver core: fix resource leak in device_add()
to the 5.15-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:
driver-core-fix-resource-leak-in-device_add.patch
and it can be found in the queue-5.15 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit d879c298886d41c43e30d78f29b20e9ba815ff53
Author: Zhengchao Shao <shaozhengchao@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed Nov 23 09:20:42 2022 +0800
driver core: fix resource leak in device_add()
[ Upstream commit 6977b1a5d67097eaa4d02b0c126c04cc6e8917c0 ]
When calling kobject_add() failed in device_add(), it will call
cleanup_glue_dir() to free resource. But in kobject_add(),
dev->kobj.parent has been set to NULL. This will cause resource leak.
The process is as follows:
device_add()
get_device_parent()
class_dir_create_and_add()
kobject_add() //kobject_get()
...
dev->kobj.parent = kobj;
...
kobject_add() //failed, but set dev->kobj.parent = NULL
...
glue_dir = get_glue_dir(dev) //glue_dir = NULL, and goto
//"Error" label
...
cleanup_glue_dir() //becaues glue_dir is NULL, not call
//kobject_put()
The preceding problem may cause insmod mac80211_hwsim.ko to failed.
sysfs: cannot create duplicate filename '/devices/virtual/mac80211_hwsim'
Call Trace:
<TASK>
dump_stack_lvl+0x8e/0xd1
sysfs_warn_dup.cold+0x1c/0x29
sysfs_create_dir_ns+0x224/0x280
kobject_add_internal+0x2aa/0x880
kobject_add+0x135/0x1a0
get_device_parent+0x3d7/0x590
device_add+0x2aa/0x1cb0
device_create_groups_vargs+0x1eb/0x260
device_create+0xdc/0x110
mac80211_hwsim_new_radio+0x31e/0x4790 [mac80211_hwsim]
init_mac80211_hwsim+0x48d/0x1000 [mac80211_hwsim]
do_one_initcall+0x10f/0x630
do_init_module+0x19f/0x5e0
load_module+0x64b7/0x6eb0
__do_sys_finit_module+0x140/0x200
do_syscall_64+0x35/0x80
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x46/0xb0
</TASK>
kobject_add_internal failed for mac80211_hwsim with -EEXIST, don't try to
register things with the same name in the same directory.
Fixes: cebf8fd16900 ("driver core: fix race between creating/querying glue dir and its cleanup")
Signed-off-by: Zhengchao Shao <shaozhengchao@xxxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221123012042.335252-1-shaozhengchao@xxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/drivers/base/core.c b/drivers/base/core.c
index e6a7b93760e45..adf003a7e8d6a 100644
--- a/drivers/base/core.c
+++ b/drivers/base/core.c
@@ -3328,7 +3328,7 @@ int device_add(struct device *dev)
/* we require the name to be set before, and pass NULL */
error = kobject_add(&dev->kobj, dev->kobj.parent, NULL);
if (error) {
- glue_dir = get_glue_dir(dev);
+ glue_dir = kobj;
goto Error;
}
