* [PATCH AUTOSEL 6.1 7/9] powerpc/pseries: fix possible memory leak in ibmebus_bus_init()
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@ 2023-09-09 0:22 ` Sasha Levin
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From: Sasha Levin @ 2023-09-09 0:22 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: linux-kernel, stable
Cc: Sasha Levin, robh, sfr, ruanjinjie, gregkh, dan.j.williams,
linuxppc-dev, idryomov
From: ruanjinjie <ruanjinjie@huawei.com>
[ Upstream commit afda85b963c12947e298ad85d757e333aa40fd74 ]
If device_register() returns error in ibmebus_bus_init(), name of kobject
which is allocated in dev_set_name() called in device_add() is leaked.
As comment of device_add() says, it should call put_device() to drop
the reference count that was set in device_initialize() when it fails,
so the name can be freed in kobject_cleanup().
Signed-off-by: ruanjinjie <ruanjinjie@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://msgid.link/20221110011929.3709774-1-ruanjinjie@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/ibmebus.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/ibmebus.c b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/ibmebus.c
index a870cada7acd2..ed5fc70b7353a 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/ibmebus.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/ibmebus.c
@@ -455,6 +455,7 @@ static int __init ibmebus_bus_init(void)
if (err) {
printk(KERN_WARNING "%s: device_register returned %i\n",
__func__, err);
+ put_device(&ibmebus_bus_device);
bus_unregister(&ibmebus_bus_type);
return err;
--
2.40.1
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