Re: [PATCH v3] i2c: fix memleak in i2c_new_client_device()

[Wolfram Sang <wsa@kernel.org>]

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On Fri, Sep 29, 2023 at 11:19:52AM +0200, Wolfram Sang wrote:
> Yang Yingliang reported a memleak:
> ===
> 
> I got memory leak as follows when doing fault injection test:
> 
> unreferenced object 0xffff888014aec078 (size 8):
>   comm "xrun", pid 356, jiffies 4294910619 (age 16.332s)
>   hex dump (first 8 bytes):
>     31 2d 30 30 31 63 00 00                          1-001c..
>   backtrace:
>     [<00000000eb56c0a9>] __kmalloc_track_caller+0x1a6/0x300
>     [<000000000b220ea3>] kvasprintf+0xad/0x140
>     [<00000000b83203e5>] kvasprintf_const+0x62/0x190
>     [<000000002a5eab37>] kobject_set_name_vargs+0x56/0x140
>     [<00000000300ac279>] dev_set_name+0xb0/0xe0
>     [<00000000b66ebd6f>] i2c_new_client_device+0x7e4/0x9a0
> 
> If device_register() returns error in i2c_new_client_device(),
> the name allocated by i2c_dev_set_name() need be freed. As
> comment of device_register() says, it should use put_device()
> to give up the reference in the error path.
> 
> ===
> I think this solution is less intrusive and more robust than he
> originally proposed solutions, though.
> 
> Reported-by: Yang Yingliang <yangyingliang@huawei.com>
> Closes: http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/linux-i2c/patch/20221124085448.3620240-1-yangyingliang@huawei.com/
> Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang <wsa+renesas@sang-engineering.com>

Applied to for-next, thanks!


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