From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.kernel.org (aws-us-west-2-korg-mail-1.web.codeaurora.org [10.30.226.201]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D14AC8494 for ; Thu, 5 Jan 2023 12:59:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 366F7C433EF; Thu, 5 Jan 2023 12:59:34 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=linuxfoundation.org; s=korg; t=1672923574; bh=E66UfLByuvpiFkZgPsyqOojYpRvUYbgfQf0UxwG0EZY=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:Date:In-Reply-To:References:From; b=d/uYLfhRAHhVs6mvGzMmtSN7HvXXKcsS5Hv+jeDiRtJTk4suHEhuZE7ePKIS6NI1/ qzj8+f7lEtv1Q+gYu5q0aqE1Ka3JkhuB9C45iC5JRcTymwXFgOIGw3/TumqOwdtnfq unsCqQiX3hYRgLKnJIHesEBr2zk9vvI4tR4Fzkus= From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , patches@lists.linux.dev, Yang Yingliang , Thomas Bogendoerfer , Sasha Levin Subject: [PATCH 4.9 034/251] MIPS: vpe-mt: fix possible memory leak while module exiting Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2023 13:52:51 +0100 Message-Id: <20230105125336.323529157@linuxfoundation.org> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.39.0 In-Reply-To: <20230105125334.727282894@linuxfoundation.org> References: <20230105125334.727282894@linuxfoundation.org> User-Agent: quilt/0.67 Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: patches@lists.linux.dev List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit From: Yang Yingliang [ Upstream commit 5822e8cc84ee37338ab0bdc3124f6eec04dc232d ] Afer commit 1fa5ae857bb1 ("driver core: get rid of struct device's bus_id string array"), the name of device is allocated dynamically, it need be freed when module exiting, call put_device() to give up reference, so that it can be freed in kobject_cleanup() when the refcount hit to 0. The vpe_device is static, so remove kfree() from vpe_device_release(). Fixes: 1fa5ae857bb1 ("driver core: get rid of struct device's bus_id string array") Signed-off-by: Yang Yingliang Signed-off-by: Thomas Bogendoerfer Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin --- arch/mips/kernel/vpe-mt.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/mips/kernel/vpe-mt.c b/arch/mips/kernel/vpe-mt.c index 2e003b11a098..9fd7cd48ea1d 100644 --- a/arch/mips/kernel/vpe-mt.c +++ b/arch/mips/kernel/vpe-mt.c @@ -313,7 +313,6 @@ ATTRIBUTE_GROUPS(vpe); static void vpe_device_release(struct device *cd) { - kfree(cd); } static struct class vpe_class = { @@ -497,6 +496,7 @@ int __init vpe_module_init(void) device_del(&vpe_device); out_class: + put_device(&vpe_device); class_unregister(&vpe_class); out_chrdev: @@ -509,7 +509,7 @@ void __exit vpe_module_exit(void) { struct vpe *v, *n; - device_del(&vpe_device); + device_unregister(&vpe_device); class_unregister(&vpe_class); unregister_chrdev(major, VPE_MODULE_NAME); -- 2.35.1