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From: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
To: Alexey Khoroshilov <khoroshilov@ispras.ru>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	linux-input@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	ldv-project@linuxtesting.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] USB: input: gtco.c: fix usb_dev leak
Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2014 12:24:47 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140127202447.GA18489@core.coreip.homeip.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1390853454-31749-1-git-send-email-khoroshilov@ispras.ru>

On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 12:10:54AM +0400, Alexey Khoroshilov wrote:
> There is usb_get_dev() in gtco_probe(), but there is no usb_put_dev()
> anywhere in the driver.
> 
> As pointed out by Dmitry Torokhov:
> The lifetime of gtco structure is already directly tied to lifetime of
> usb_dev: when destroying usb_dev driver core will call remove() function
> of currently bound driver (in our case gtco) which will destroy gtco
> memory. Taking additional reference is not needed here.
> 
> Found by Linux Driver Verification project (linuxtesting.org).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alexey Khoroshilov <khoroshilov@ispras.ru>

Applied, thank you.

> ---
>  drivers/input/tablet/gtco.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/input/tablet/gtco.c b/drivers/input/tablet/gtco.c
> index caecffe8caff..858045694e9d 100644
> --- a/drivers/input/tablet/gtco.c
> +++ b/drivers/input/tablet/gtco.c
> @@ -848,7 +848,7 @@ static int gtco_probe(struct usb_interface *usbinterface,
>  	gtco->inputdevice = input_dev;
>  
>  	/* Save interface information */
> -	gtco->usbdev = usb_get_dev(interface_to_usbdev(usbinterface));
> +	gtco->usbdev = interface_to_usbdev(usbinterface);
>  	gtco->intf = usbinterface;
>  
>  	/* Allocate some data for incoming reports */
> -- 
> 1.8.3.2
> 

-- 
Dmitry

  reply	other threads:[~2014-01-27 20:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-01-27 20:10 [PATCH] USB: input: gtco.c: fix usb_dev leak Alexey Khoroshilov
2014-01-27 20:24 ` Dmitry Torokhov [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2014-01-18 23:24 Alexey Khoroshilov
2014-01-21 19:59 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2014-01-27  6:31   ` Alexey Khoroshilov
2014-01-27  6:54     ` Dmitry Torokhov
2014-01-27 10:29       ` Alexey Khoroshilov
2014-01-27 13:17         ` Greg Kroah-Hartman

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