From: Malaya Kumar Rout <malayarout91@gmail.com>
To: zhanjie9@hisilicon.com, linux-pm@vger.kernel.org,
myungjoo.ham@samsung.com, kyungmin.park@samsung.com,
cw00.choi@samsung.com, kant@allwinnertech.com
Cc: skhan@linuxfoundation.org, me@brighamcampbell.com,
Malaya Kumar Rout <malayarout91@gmail.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH v2] PM / devfreq: userspace: Fix memory leak in userspace_init()
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2026 19:05:22 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260729133523.357383-1-malayarout91@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <511c7f13-3344-44bf-a960-044fc2401789@hisilicon.com>
Fix a memory leak in the userspace_init() function where allocated
memory is not freed when sysfs_create_group() fails.
When sysfs_create_group() fails, the function returns without freeing
the memory allocated for 'data', leading to a memory leak. This patch
adds proper error handling to free the allocated memory and reset
governor_data to NULL on failure.
v2:
- Removed redundant 'out:' goto label and returned -ENOMEM directly
on allocation failure.
Fixes: 5fdded844892 ("PM/devfreq: governor: Add a private governor_data for governor")
Signed-off-by: Malaya Kumar Rout <malayarout91@gmail.com>
---
drivers/devfreq/governor_userspace.c | 13 ++++++++-----
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/devfreq/governor_userspace.c b/drivers/devfreq/governor_userspace.c
index 3906ebedbae8..8211aadb81f0 100644
--- a/drivers/devfreq/governor_userspace.c
+++ b/drivers/devfreq/governor_userspace.c
@@ -89,15 +89,18 @@ static int userspace_init(struct devfreq *devfreq)
int err = 0;
struct userspace_data *data = kzalloc_obj(struct userspace_data);
- if (!data) {
- err = -ENOMEM;
- goto out;
- }
+ if (!data)
+ return -ENOMEM;
+
data->valid = false;
devfreq->governor_data = data;
err = sysfs_create_group(&devfreq->dev.kobj, &dev_attr_group);
-out:
+ if (err) {
+ kfree(data);
+ devfreq->governor_data = NULL;
+ }
+
return err;
}
--
2.54.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-07-29 13:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-07-04 16:32 [PATCH] PM / devfreq: userspace: Fix memory leak in userspace_init() Malaya Kumar Rout
2026-07-24 6:17 ` malaya kumar rout
2026-07-28 6:31 ` Jie Zhan
2026-07-29 13:35 ` Malaya Kumar Rout [this message]
2026-07-30 12:51 ` [PATCH v2] " Jie Zhan
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