From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
To: Andreas Noever <andreas.noever@gmail.com>,
Kranthi Kuntala <kranthi.kuntala@intel.com>
Cc: Michael Jamet <michael.jamet@intel.com>,
Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@linux.intel.com>,
Yehezkel Bernat <YehezkelShB@gmail.com>,
linux-usb@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org, Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] thunderbolt: Fix a leak in tb_retimer_add()
Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2021 09:07:18 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YGFulvAa5Kz6HTsd@mwanda> (raw)
After the device_register() succeeds, then the correct way to clean up
is to call device_unregister(). The unregister calls both device_del()
and device_put(). Since this code was only device_del() it results in
a memory leak.
Fixes: dacb12877d92 ("thunderbolt: Add support for on-board retimers")
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
---
This is from a new static checker warning. Not tested. With new
warnings it's also possible that I have misunderstood something
fundamental so review carefully etc.
drivers/thunderbolt/retimer.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/thunderbolt/retimer.c b/drivers/thunderbolt/retimer.c
index 620bcf586ee2..7a5d61604c8b 100644
--- a/drivers/thunderbolt/retimer.c
+++ b/drivers/thunderbolt/retimer.c
@@ -347,7 +347,7 @@ static int tb_retimer_add(struct tb_port *port, u8 index, u32 auth_status)
ret = tb_retimer_nvm_add(rt);
if (ret) {
dev_err(&rt->dev, "failed to add NVM devices: %d\n", ret);
- device_del(&rt->dev);
+ device_unregister(&rt->dev);
return ret;
}
--
2.30.2
next reply other threads:[~2021-03-29 6:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-03-29 6:07 Dan Carpenter [this message]
2021-03-29 6:08 ` [PATCH 2/2] thunderbolt: Fix off by one in tb_port_find_retimer() Dan Carpenter
2021-03-29 13:02 ` [PATCH 1/2] thunderbolt: Fix a leak in tb_retimer_add() Jason Gunthorpe
2021-03-29 14:43 ` Mika Westerberg
2021-03-29 14:54 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-03-29 15:06 ` Mika Westerberg
2021-03-30 10:41 ` Mika Westerberg
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