This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
staging: comedi: Fix comedi_device refcnt leak in comedi_open
to my staging git tree which can be found at
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/staging.git
in the staging-linus branch.
The patch will show up in the next release of the linux-next tree
(usually sometime within the next 24 hours during the week.)
The patch will hopefully also be merged in Linus's tree for the
next -rc kernel release.
If you have any questions about this process, please let me know.
>From 332e0e17ad49e084b7db670ef43b5eb59abd9e34 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Xiyu Yang <xiyuyang19@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2020 13:44:16 +0800
Subject: staging: comedi: Fix comedi_device refcnt leak in comedi_open
comedi_open() invokes comedi_dev_get_from_minor(), which returns a
reference of the COMEDI device to "dev" with increased refcount.
When comedi_open() returns, "dev" becomes invalid, so the refcount
should be decreased to keep refcount balanced.
The reference counting issue happens in one exception handling path of
comedi_open(). When "cfp" allocation is failed, the refcnt increased by
comedi_dev_get_from_minor() is not decreased, causing a refcnt leak.
Fix this issue by calling comedi_dev_put() on this error path when "cfp"
allocation is failed.
Fixes: 20f083c07565 ("staging: comedi: prepare support for per-file read and write subdevices")
Signed-off-by: Xiyu Yang <xiyuyang19@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: stable <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Xin Tan <tanxin.ctf@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Ian Abbott <abbotti@xxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1587361459-83622-1-git-send-email-xiyuyang19@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/staging/comedi/comedi_fops.c | 4 +++-
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/staging/comedi/comedi_fops.c b/drivers/staging/comedi/comedi_fops.c
index 08d1bbbebf2d..e84b4fb493d6 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/comedi/comedi_fops.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/comedi/comedi_fops.c
@@ -2725,8 +2725,10 @@ static int comedi_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)
}
cfp = kzalloc(sizeof(*cfp), GFP_KERNEL);
- if (!cfp)
+ if (!cfp) {
+ comedi_dev_put(dev);
return -ENOMEM;
+ }
cfp->dev = dev;
--
2.26.2
