This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
firewire: core: fix possible memory leak in create_units()
to the 5.4-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:
firewire-core-fix-possible-memory-leak-in-create_units.patch
and it can be found in the queue-5.4 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 891e0eab32a57fca4d36c5162628eb0bcb1f0edf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Yang Yingliang <yangyingliang@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2023 17:34:08 +0800
Subject: firewire: core: fix possible memory leak in create_units()
From: Yang Yingliang <yangyingliang@xxxxxxxxxx>
commit 891e0eab32a57fca4d36c5162628eb0bcb1f0edf upstream.
If device_register() fails, the refcount of device is not 0, the name
allocated in dev_set_name() is leaked. To fix this by calling put_device(),
so that it will be freed in callback function kobject_cleanup().
unreferenced object 0xffff9d99035c7a90 (size 8):
comm "systemd-udevd", pid 168, jiffies 4294672386 (age 152.089s)
hex dump (first 8 bytes):
66 77 30 2e 30 00 ff ff fw0.0...
backtrace:
[<00000000e1d62bac>] __kmem_cache_alloc_node+0x1e9/0x360
[<00000000bbeaff31>] __kmalloc_node_track_caller+0x44/0x1a0
[<00000000491f2fb4>] kvasprintf+0x67/0xd0
[<000000005b960ddc>] kobject_set_name_vargs+0x1e/0x90
[<00000000427ac591>] dev_set_name+0x4e/0x70
[<000000003b4e447d>] create_units+0xc5/0x110
fw_unit_release() will be called in the error path, move fw_device_get()
before calling device_register() to keep balanced with fw_device_put() in
fw_unit_release().
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Fixes: 1fa5ae857bb1 ("driver core: get rid of struct device's bus_id string array")
Fixes: a1f64819fe9f ("firewire: struct device - replace bus_id with dev_name(), dev_set_name()")
Signed-off-by: Yang Yingliang <yangyingliang@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Sakamoto <o-takashi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/firewire/core-device.c | 11 ++++-------
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
--- a/drivers/firewire/core-device.c
+++ b/drivers/firewire/core-device.c
@@ -719,14 +719,11 @@ static void create_units(struct fw_devic
fw_unit_attributes,
&unit->attribute_group);
- if (device_register(&unit->device) < 0)
- goto skip_unit;
-
fw_device_get(device);
- continue;
-
- skip_unit:
- kfree(unit);
+ if (device_register(&unit->device) < 0) {
+ put_device(&unit->device);
+ continue;
+ }
}
}
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from yangyingliang@xxxxxxxxxx are
queue-5.4/firewire-core-fix-possible-memory-leak-in-create_units.patch
