From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.kernel.org (aws-us-west-2-korg-mail-alma10-1.taild15c8.ts.net [100.103.45.18]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 7F4B2424D75; Thu, 16 Jul 2026 14:28:14 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=100.103.45.18 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1784212100; cv=none; b=jrkb277v5/sbJRbSCPuNlMOVoZbFuht0TLPDTqqU3mPtWqn+YpAV4QrkhLg9ZyAo8Jus3EwEWbgZGwZTcKvBpRqIr3KzjPeKVcrnIZY3aD0Y3Jm0/qbfa5lgvHgDaOqZnVBIVMf+3T3fp3rJfUzNixzFAMGv7mnyrMFEk2rwqkM= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1784212100; c=relaxed/simple; bh=3BTpaSILyIfUYiMFPzcn0oFRQV/idQnKiREY1T9anIY=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:Date:Message-ID:In-Reply-To:References: MIME-Version; b=ha2H52QWj742UJf9dHCT32x52MrSwdVsGWpCf9+dvdpIlK0LBvQWpROE7U1JrM1KpCSjykjZQtJXUzToHOSeQ6qlI3Ki/RICXGPokdzJj7e6+Lq3SaZGlOnpHDJ1WZ2DHGYfXy7S1ZJS+/HASi4P1KfVWom5HBOS0UKZ3EVcGoM= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=linuxfoundation.org header.i=@linuxfoundation.org header.b=xgWv6a9p; arc=none smtp.client-ip=100.103.45.18 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=linuxfoundation.org header.i=@linuxfoundation.org header.b="xgWv6a9p" Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 4AAAE1F00A3A; Thu, 16 Jul 2026 14:28:11 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=linuxfoundation.org; s=korg; t=1784212091; bh=NpXe5BA5UjFCi2etONYXkOWGyrNIfpolFX/D+M4hRFQ=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:Date:In-Reply-To:References; b=xgWv6a9plo5Y0GfmMV7Xx4wKj+VLsmjSrl/qAR/s/7u4l3PUANQwPfB0ys8eqIaVl 9yj/kItr2h+xfjEBl7dU/HSL14st4GLZWARAila46q38KC/wm32c14/s4aAjSwN5Y0 jMHi2lkkcSUDiqdQMVHX4XASFY5pWDwriOyQEyow= From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , patches@lists.linux.dev, Guangshuo Li , Danilo Krummrich Subject: [PATCH 6.12 189/349] firmware_loader: fix device reference leak in firmware_upload_register() Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2026 15:32:03 +0200 Message-ID: <20260716133037.607524994@linuxfoundation.org> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.55.0 In-Reply-To: <20260716133033.287196923@linuxfoundation.org> References: <20260716133033.287196923@linuxfoundation.org> User-Agent: quilt/0.69 X-stable: review X-Patchwork-Hint: ignore Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: patches@lists.linux.dev List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 6.12-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Guangshuo Li commit 896df22ee57648b0c505bd76ddbc6b2341834696 upstream. firmware_upload_register() -> fw_create_instance() -> device_initialize() After fw_create_instance() succeeds, the lifetime of the embedded struct device is expected to be managed through the device core reference counting, since fw_create_instance() has already called device_initialize(). In firmware_upload_register(), if alloc_lookup_fw_priv() fails after fw_create_instance() succeeds, the code reaches free_fw_sysfs and frees fw_sysfs directly instead of releasing the device reference with put_device(). This may leave the reference count of the embedded struct device unbalanced, resulting in a refcount leak. The issue was identified by a static analysis tool I developed and confirmed by manual review. Fix this by using put_device(fw_dev) in the failure path and letting fw_dev_release() handle the final cleanup, instead of freeing the instance directly from the error path. Fixes: 97730bbb242c ("firmware_loader: Add firmware-upload support") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Guangshuo Li Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260505091231.607089-1-lgs201920130244@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Danilo Krummrich Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- drivers/base/firmware_loader/sysfs_upload.c | 8 +++----- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/base/firmware_loader/sysfs_upload.c +++ b/drivers/base/firmware_loader/sysfs_upload.c @@ -341,7 +341,6 @@ firmware_upload_register(struct module * goto free_fw_upload_priv; } fw_upload->priv = fw_sysfs; - fw_sysfs->fw_upload_priv = fw_upload_priv; fw_dev = &fw_sysfs->dev; ret = alloc_lookup_fw_priv(name, &fw_cache, &fw_priv, NULL, 0, 0, @@ -349,10 +348,12 @@ firmware_upload_register(struct module * if (ret != 0) { if (ret > 0) ret = -EINVAL; - goto free_fw_sysfs; + put_device(fw_dev); + goto free_fw_upload_priv; } fw_priv->is_paged_buf = true; fw_sysfs->fw_priv = fw_priv; + fw_sysfs->fw_upload_priv = fw_upload_priv; ret = device_add(fw_dev); if (ret) { @@ -363,9 +364,6 @@ firmware_upload_register(struct module * return fw_upload; -free_fw_sysfs: - kfree(fw_sysfs); - free_fw_upload_priv: kfree(fw_upload_priv);