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* [PATCH v1] devres: Fix memory leakage due to driver API devm_free_percpu()
@ 2024-06-19 13:38 Zijun Hu
  2024-06-19 14:53 ` Greg KH
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Zijun Hu @ 2024-06-19 13:38 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: gregkh, rafael, davem, madalin.bucur; +Cc: linux-kernel, stable, Zijun Hu

It will cause memory leakage when use driver API devm_free_percpu()
to free memory allocated by devm_alloc_percpu(), fixed by using
devres_release() instead of devres_destroy() within devm_free_percpu().

Fixes: ff86aae3b411 ("devres: add devm_alloc_percpu()")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Zijun Hu <quic_zijuhu@quicinc.com>
---
 drivers/base/devres.c | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/base/devres.c b/drivers/base/devres.c
index 3df0025d12aa..082dbb296b6e 100644
--- a/drivers/base/devres.c
+++ b/drivers/base/devres.c
@@ -1222,7 +1222,11 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(__devm_alloc_percpu);
  */
 void devm_free_percpu(struct device *dev, void __percpu *pdata)
 {
-	WARN_ON(devres_destroy(dev, devm_percpu_release, devm_percpu_match,
+	/*
+	 * Use devres_release() to prevent memory leakage as
+	 * devm_free_pages() does.
+	 */
+	WARN_ON(devres_release(dev, devm_percpu_release, devm_percpu_match,
 			       (__force void *)pdata));
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(devm_free_percpu);
-- 
2.7.4


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