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 AE0D58494 for ; Thu, 5 Jan 2023 12:59:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 268B4C433EF; Thu, 5 Jan 2023 12:59:36 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=linuxfoundation.org; s=korg; t=1672923577; bh=dJq01lreG1hWlgvQLtbQ9qGIiIdw9xBElaXv/5HCxYI=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:Date:In-Reply-To:References:From; b=hsgR87ZT4rrJ3GSoWYX8HNSqT/11BviUPfLW62+ppBEsHXKarwTGDIwrpWmsLTT4Z cYfotGtFIms1R2ebz7r6Wg5qhoYT4UiQBfRl9mxN3wr18iYPQi7HdNYZ+VuLQWTrdl OqyPWgbeCL9gkJ0a+NxkmERWuGeKcnDpzn1BvWPg= 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 4.9 035/251] MIPS: vpe-cmp: fix possible memory leak while module exiting Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2023 13:52:52 +0100 Message-Id: <20230105125336.365348663@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 c5ed1fe0801f0c66b0fbce2785239a5664629057 ] dev_set_name() allocates memory for name, 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: 17a1d523aa58 ("MIPS: APRP: Add VPE loader support for CMP platforms.") Signed-off-by: Yang Yingliang Signed-off-by: Thomas Bogendoerfer Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin --- arch/mips/kernel/vpe-cmp.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/mips/kernel/vpe-cmp.c b/arch/mips/kernel/vpe-cmp.c index 9268ebc0f61e..903c07bdc92d 100644 --- a/arch/mips/kernel/vpe-cmp.c +++ b/arch/mips/kernel/vpe-cmp.c @@ -75,7 +75,6 @@ ATTRIBUTE_GROUPS(vpe); static void vpe_device_release(struct device *cd) { - kfree(cd); } static struct class vpe_class = { @@ -157,6 +156,7 @@ int __init vpe_module_init(void) device_del(&vpe_device); out_class: + put_device(&vpe_device); class_unregister(&vpe_class); out_chrdev: @@ -169,7 +169,7 @@ 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