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* [PATCH RESEND] x86/pmem: fix platform-device leak in error path
@ 2022-06-20 14:07 Johan Hovold
  2022-06-20 16:11 ` [tip: x86/misc] x86/pmem: Fix " tip-bot2 for Johan Hovold
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Johan Hovold @ 2022-06-20 14:07 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Thomas Gleixner, Ingo Molnar, Borislav Petkov, Dave Hansen
  Cc: x86, H. Peter Anvin, linux-kernel, Johan Hovold

Make sure to free the platform device in the unlikely event that
registration fails.

Fixes: 7a67832c7e44 ("libnvdimm, e820: make CONFIG_X86_PMEM_LEGACY a tristate option")
Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
---

It's been almost four months so resending.

Obviously not an important fix in itself, but this allows for getting
rid of the last two users of platform_device_add() that failed to
release the platform device on errors (and may help prevent new ones
from being added).

Johan


 arch/x86/kernel/pmem.c | 7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/pmem.c b/arch/x86/kernel/pmem.c
index 6b07faaa1579..23154d24b117 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/pmem.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/pmem.c
@@ -27,6 +27,11 @@ static __init int register_e820_pmem(void)
 	 * simply here to trigger the module to load on demand.
 	 */
 	pdev = platform_device_alloc("e820_pmem", -1);
-	return platform_device_add(pdev);
+
+	rc = platform_device_add(pdev);
+	if (rc)
+		platform_device_put(pdev);
+
+	return rc;
 }
 device_initcall(register_e820_pmem);
-- 
2.35.1


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