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From: tony@atomide.com (Tony Lindgren)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH, v3] arm: omap2: timer: fix a kmemleak caused in omap_get_timer_dt
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2018 13:08:44 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180112210844.GF4821@atomide.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7dd12934-862c-c7ad-5f43-43e4c6b08199@ti.com>

* Grygorii Strashko <grygorii.strashko@ti.com> [180112 20:36]:
> Hi
> 
> On 01/10/2018 10:54 PM, Qi Hou wrote:
> > When more than one GP timers are used as kernel system timers and the
> > corresponding nodes in device-tree are marked with the same "disabled"
> > property, then the "attr" field of the property will be initialized
> > more than once as the property being added to sys file system via
> > __of_add_property_sysfs().
> > 
> > In __of_add_property_sysfs(), the "name" field of pp->attr.attr is set
> > directly to the return value of safe_name(), without taking care of
> > whether it's already a valid pointer to a memory block. If it is, its
> > old value will always be overwritten by the new one and the memory block
> > allocated before will a "ghost", then a kmemleak happened.
> > 
> > That the same "disabled" property being added to different nodes of device
> > tree would cause that kind of kmemleak overhead, at leat once.
> > 
> > To fix it, allocate the property dynamically, and delete static one.
> 
> Does it in sync with Keerthy's work [1]

First fixes, then new stuff! Keerthy's work will have to
wait for v4.17, we want that series sitting in Linux next
for several weeks.

Regards,

Tony

> [1] https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-omap/msg141100.html

  reply	other threads:[~2018-01-12 21:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-01-11  4:54 [PATCH, v3] arm: omap2: timer: fix a kmemleak caused in omap_get_timer_dt Qi Hou
2018-01-12 20:36 ` Grygorii Strashko
2018-01-12 21:08   ` Tony Lindgren [this message]
2018-01-12 21:17     ` Grygorii Strashko
2018-01-12 22:27       ` Keerthy
2018-02-14 16:18 ` Tony Lindgren

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