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From: Krishan Singh <krishanmohan298@gmail.com>
To: linux@armlinux.org.uk
Cc: andrew@lunn.ch, hkallweit1@gmail.com, davem@davemloft.net,
	edumazet@google.com, kuba@kernel.org, pabeni@redhat.com,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Krishan Singh <krishanmohan298@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH] net: sfp: Fix memory leak of hwmon_name on hwmon registration failure
Date: Wed,  5 Aug 2026 09:54:35 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260805042435.194101-1-krishanmohan298@gmail.com> (raw)

hwmon_sanitize_name() allocates sfp->hwmon_name before
hwmon_device_register_with_info() is called. If the registration
fails, sfp->hwmon_dev is left as an error pointer while
sfp->hwmon_name remains allocated.

Later, when the SFP module is removed, sfp_hwmon_remove() is still
called. However, it frees sfp->hwmon_name only when
!IS_ERR_OR_NULL(sfp->hwmon_dev) is true. Since sfp->hwmon_dev is an
error pointer in the failure case, the cleanup block is skipped and
hwmon_name is leaked.

Fix this by cleaning up hwmon_name independently of hwmon_dev.
Continue to unregister the hwmon device only when hwmon_dev is valid,
but free hwmon_name whenever it is a valid allocated pointer.

Fixes: 3f118c449c8e ("net: sfp: use hwmon_sanitize_name()")
Suggested-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
Signed-off-by: Krishan Singh <krishanmohan298@gmail.com>
---
 drivers/net/phy/sfp.c | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/phy/sfp.c b/drivers/net/phy/sfp.c
index f52020673..f605fb399 100644
--- a/drivers/net/phy/sfp.c
+++ b/drivers/net/phy/sfp.c
@@ -1895,9 +1895,13 @@ static void sfp_hwmon_probe(struct work_struct *work)
 							 sfp->hwmon_name, sfp,
 							 &sfp_hwmon_chip_info,
 							 NULL);
-	if (IS_ERR(sfp->hwmon_dev))
+	if (IS_ERR(sfp->hwmon_dev)) {
 		dev_err(sfp->dev, "failed to register hwmon device: %ld\n",
 			PTR_ERR(sfp->hwmon_dev));
+		kfree(sfp->hwmon_name);
+		sfp->hwmon_name = NULL;
+		sfp->hwmon_dev  = NULL;
+	 }
 }
 
 static int sfp_hwmon_insert(struct sfp *sfp)
-- 
2.34.1


             reply	other threads:[~2026-08-05  4:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-08-05  4:24 Krishan Singh [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2026-08-05  4:36 [PATCH] net: sfp: Fix memory leak of hwmon_name on hwmon registration failure Krishan Singh
2026-08-05 11:58 ` Andrew Lunn
2026-08-07  7:22   ` krishan mohan
2026-08-07 14:01     ` Andrew Lunn

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