[PATCH 1/2] EDAC/sysfs: Fix memory leak when creating a csrow object

[Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>]

From 28e7f23939208bea639d6cd3d492cde3f65a7e4f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Pan Bian <bianpan2016@163.com>
Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2019 10:27:18 +0800

In edac_create_csrow_object(), the reference to the object is not
released when adding the device to the device hierarchy fails
(device_add()). This may result in a memory leak.

Signed-off-by: Pan Bian <bianpan2016@163.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: James Morse <james.morse@arm.com>
Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-edac <linux-edac@vger.kernel.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1555554438-103953-1-git-send-email-bianpan2016@163.com
---
 drivers/edac/edac_mc_sysfs.c | 8 +++++++-
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/edac/edac_mc_sysfs.c b/drivers/edac/edac_mc_sysfs.c
index 464174685589..9b7d396f26e9 100644
--- a/drivers/edac/edac_mc_sysfs.c
+++ b/drivers/edac/edac_mc_sysfs.c
@@ -404,6 +404,8 @@ static inline int nr_pages_per_csrow(struct csrow_info *csrow)
 static int edac_create_csrow_object(struct mem_ctl_info *mci,
 				    struct csrow_info *csrow, int index)
 {
+	int err;
+
 	csrow->dev.type = &csrow_attr_type;
 	csrow->dev.groups = csrow_dev_groups;
 	device_initialize(&csrow->dev);
@@ -415,7 +417,11 @@ static int edac_create_csrow_object(struct mem_ctl_info *mci,
 	edac_dbg(0, "creating (virtual) csrow node %s\n",
 		 dev_name(&csrow->dev));
 
-	return device_add(&csrow->dev);
+	err = device_add(&csrow->dev);
+	if (err)
+		put_device(&csrow->dev);
+
+	return err;
 }
 
 /* Create a CSROW object under specifed edac_mc_device */
-- 
2.21.0


-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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