This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
stm class: Fix device leak in open error path
to the 4.8-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:
stm-class-fix-device-leak-in-open-error-path.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.8 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From a0ebf519b8a2666438d999c62995618c710573e5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Johan Hovold <johan@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2016 14:17:31 +0200
Subject: stm class: Fix device leak in open error path
From: Johan Hovold <johan@xxxxxxxxxx>
commit a0ebf519b8a2666438d999c62995618c710573e5 upstream.
Make sure to drop the reference taken by class_find_device() also on
allocation errors in open().
Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@xxxxxxxxxx>
Fixes: 7bd1d4093c2f ("stm class: Introduce an abstraction for...")
Signed-off-by: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/hwtracing/stm/core.c | 8 +++++---
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
--- a/drivers/hwtracing/stm/core.c
+++ b/drivers/hwtracing/stm/core.c
@@ -361,7 +361,7 @@ static int stm_char_open(struct inode *i
struct stm_file *stmf;
struct device *dev;
unsigned int major = imajor(inode);
- int err = -ENODEV;
+ int err = -ENOMEM;
dev = class_find_device(&stm_class, NULL, &major, major_match);
if (!dev)
@@ -369,8 +369,9 @@ static int stm_char_open(struct inode *i
stmf = kzalloc(sizeof(*stmf), GFP_KERNEL);
if (!stmf)
- return -ENOMEM;
+ goto err_put_device;
+ err = -ENODEV;
stm_output_init(&stmf->output);
stmf->stm = to_stm_device(dev);
@@ -382,9 +383,10 @@ static int stm_char_open(struct inode *i
return nonseekable_open(inode, file);
err_free:
+ kfree(stmf);
+err_put_device:
/* matches class_find_device() above */
put_device(dev);
- kfree(stmf);
return err;
}
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from johan@xxxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.8/stm-class-fix-device-leak-in-open-error-path.patch
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