From: "Kurt Borja" <kuurtb@gmail.com>
To: "Kurt Borja" <kuurtb@gmail.com>,
"Mark Pearson" <mpearson-lenovo@squebb.ca>,
"Hans de Goede" <hdegoede@redhat.com>,
"Ilpo Järvinen" <ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: <platform-driver-x86@vger.kernel.org>, <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] platform/x86: think-lmi: Fix kobject cleanup
Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2025 02:32:15 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <DAXX5FP3VB6T.198C8JS1MVWAL@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250628-lmi-fix-v1-2-c6eec9aa3ca7@gmail.com>
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On Sat Jun 28, 2025 at 2:00 AM -03, Kurt Borja wrote:
> Cleanup of allocated kobjects has many flaws.
>
> In tlmi_analyze(), allocated structs with an embedded kobject are freed
> in error paths after the they were already initialized.
>
> In tlmi_release_attr(), which is called in tlmi_sysfs_init() error paths
> and in module exit, kobject_del() is never called. This, between other
> things, leaks the reference of the parent kobject, which is a kset in
> this case.
>
> Fix this flaws simultaneously, first by avoiding the initialization of
> kobjects in tlmi_analyze() and then by correctly cleaning them up in
> tlmi_release_attr() using their kset's kobject list.
>
> Fixes: a40cd7ef22fb ("platform/x86: think-lmi: Add WMI interface support on Lenovo platforms")
> Signed-off-by: Kurt Borja <kuurtb@gmail.com>
I missed some commits:
Fixes: 30e78435d3bf ("platform/x86: think-lmi: Split kobject_init() and kobject_add() calls")
Fixes: f7e506ec4a99 ("platform/x86: think-lmi: Fix possible mem-leaks on tlmi_analyze() error-exit")
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~Kurt
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-06-28 5:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-06-28 5:00 [PATCH 0/3] platform/x86: think-lmi: Fix resource cleanup flaws Kurt Borja
2025-06-28 5:00 ` [PATCH 1/3] platform/x86: think-lmi: Create ksets consecutively Kurt Borja
2025-06-28 5:00 ` [PATCH 2/3] platform/x86: think-lmi: Fix kobject cleanup Kurt Borja
2025-06-28 5:32 ` Kurt Borja [this message]
2025-06-28 5:00 ` [PATCH 3/3] platform/x86: think-lmi: Fix sysfs group cleanup Kurt Borja
2025-06-28 19:30 ` [PATCH 0/3] platform/x86: think-lmi: Fix resource cleanup flaws Mark Pearson
2025-06-28 20:26 ` Kurt Borja
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