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From: Guixin Liu <kanie@linux.alibaba.com>
To: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>,
	Jonathan Cameron <jic23@kernel.org>,
	Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@intel.com>,
	Alison Schofield <alison.schofield@intel.com>,
	Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@intel.com>,
	Dan Williams <djbw@kernel.org>, Ira Weiny <iweiny@kernel.org>,
	Li Ming <ming.li@zohomail.com>, Robert Richter <rrichter@amd.com>
Cc: linux-cxl@vger.kernel.org, xlpang@linux.alibaba.com,
	oliver.yang@linux.alibaba.com
Subject: [PATCH 8/8] cxl/region: Unregister the pmem region bridge on setup failure
Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2026 19:36:08 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260811113608.2815625-9-kanie@linux.alibaba.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260811113608.2815625-1-kanie@linux.alibaba.com>

When the nvdimm bridge has no driver bound, devm_cxl_add_pmem_region()
bails out with -ENXIO through the err_bridge label. That label only drops
the reference on @cxl_nvb, so the cxl_pmem_region device that device_add()
just published stays in sysfs forever: there is no device_del() and no
put_device(), and no devm action was registered to do either later.

Beyond the leak, cxlr->cxlr_pmem is left pointing at the stale device, so
a later probe of the same region allocates a second one and fails in
device_add() with -EEXIST on the duplicate "pmem_region%d" name.

Call cxlr_pmem_unregister() explicitly in that branch. It runs under the
bridge's device lock held by the scoped_guard(), which is what its
device_lock_assert() expects, and it performs the same teardown the devm
action would have done, including clearing cxlr->cxlr_pmem, so err_bridge
only has the @cxl_nvb reference left to drop.

Fixes: f17b558d6663 ("cxl/pmem: Refactor nvdimm device registration, delete the workqueue")
Signed-off-by: Guixin Liu <kanie@linux.alibaba.com>
---
 drivers/cxl/core/region_pmem.c | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/cxl/core/region_pmem.c b/drivers/cxl/core/region_pmem.c
index 23d97e3d78b6..7ab1373a95e0 100644
--- a/drivers/cxl/core/region_pmem.c
+++ b/drivers/cxl/core/region_pmem.c
@@ -168,12 +168,14 @@ int devm_cxl_add_pmem_region(struct cxl_region *cxlr)
 		dev_name(dev));
 
 	scoped_guard(device, &cxl_nvb->dev) {
-		if (cxl_nvb->dev.driver)
+		if (cxl_nvb->dev.driver) {
 			rc = devm_add_action_or_reset(&cxl_nvb->dev,
 						      cxlr_pmem_unregister,
 						      cxlr_pmem);
-		else
+		} else {
 			rc = -ENXIO;
+			cxlr_pmem_unregister(cxlr_pmem);
+		}
 	}
 
 	if (rc)
-- 
2.43.7


  parent reply	other threads:[~2026-08-11 11:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-08-11 11:36 [PATCH 0/8] cxl: Assorted fixes Guixin Liu
2026-08-11 11:36 ` [PATCH 1/8] cxl/features: Validate the fwctl RPC input length Guixin Liu
2026-08-11 11:36 ` [PATCH 2/8] cxl/features: Bound the Get Feature output by the user output buffer Guixin Liu
2026-08-11 11:36 ` [PATCH 3/8] cxl/core: Fix dport use-after-free via the einj_inject debugfs file Guixin Liu
2026-08-11 16:03   ` Li Ming
2026-08-12  1:58     ` Guixin Liu
2026-08-11 11:36 ` [PATCH 4/8] cxl/pci: Fix NULL pointer dereference in reset detection Guixin Liu
2026-08-11 11:36 ` [PATCH 5/8] cxl/hdm: Fix out of bounds read of the decoder target list Guixin Liu
2026-08-11 11:36 ` [PATCH 6/8] cxl/cdat: Fix uninitialized stack use in endpoint bandwidth gathering Guixin Liu
2026-08-11 11:36 ` [PATCH 7/8] cxl/mce: Validate the memdev and endpoint before use Guixin Liu
2026-08-11 11:36 ` Guixin Liu [this message]
2026-08-11 19:57 ` [PATCH 0/8] cxl: Assorted fixes Alison Schofield
2026-08-12  2:10   ` Guixin Liu
2026-08-12  6:29     ` Richard Cheng
2026-08-12  6:37       ` Guixin Liu

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