This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled platform/x86: think-lmi: Fix reference leak to the 6.5-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: platform-x86-think-lmi-fix-reference-leak.patch and it can be found in the queue-6.5 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 0625555de5c1521c8127f8556c2373ce4df45762 Author: Armin Wolf <W_Armin@xxxxxx> Date: Mon Sep 25 16:28:18 2023 +0200 platform/x86: think-lmi: Fix reference leak [ Upstream commit 528ab3e605cabf2f9c9bd5944d3bfe15f6e94f81 ] If a duplicate attribute is found using kset_find_obj(), a reference to that attribute is returned which needs to be disposed accordingly using kobject_put(). Move the setting name validation into a separate function to allow for this change without having to duplicate the cleanup code for this setting. As a side note, a very similar bug was fixed in commit 7295a996fdab ("platform/x86: dell-sysman: Fix reference leak"), so it seems that the bug was copied from that driver. Compile-tested only. Fixes: 1bcad8e510b2 ("platform/x86: think-lmi: Fix issues with duplicate attributes") Reviewed-by: Mark Pearson <mpearson-lenovo@xxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Armin Wolf <W_Armin@xxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230925142819.74525-2-W_Armin@xxxxxx Reviewed-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/platform/x86/think-lmi.c b/drivers/platform/x86/think-lmi.c index 79346881cadb1..aee869769843f 100644 --- a/drivers/platform/x86/think-lmi.c +++ b/drivers/platform/x86/think-lmi.c @@ -1248,6 +1248,24 @@ static void tlmi_release_attr(void) kset_unregister(tlmi_priv.authentication_kset); } +static int tlmi_validate_setting_name(struct kset *attribute_kset, char *name) +{ + struct kobject *duplicate; + + if (!strcmp(name, "Reserved")) + return -EINVAL; + + duplicate = kset_find_obj(attribute_kset, name); + if (duplicate) { + pr_debug("Duplicate attribute name found - %s\n", name); + /* kset_find_obj() returns a reference */ + kobject_put(duplicate); + return -EBUSY; + } + + return 0; +} + static int tlmi_sysfs_init(void) { int i, ret; @@ -1276,10 +1294,8 @@ static int tlmi_sysfs_init(void) continue; /* check for duplicate or reserved values */ - if (kset_find_obj(tlmi_priv.attribute_kset, tlmi_priv.setting[i]->display_name) || - !strcmp(tlmi_priv.setting[i]->display_name, "Reserved")) { - pr_debug("duplicate or reserved attribute name found - %s\n", - tlmi_priv.setting[i]->display_name); + if (tlmi_validate_setting_name(tlmi_priv.attribute_kset, + tlmi_priv.setting[i]->display_name) < 0) { kfree(tlmi_priv.setting[i]->possible_values); kfree(tlmi_priv.setting[i]); tlmi_priv.setting[i] = NULL;