From: Yuho Choi <dbgh9129@gmail.com>
To: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>,
Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@bootlin.com>,
Vignesh Raghavendra <vigneshr@ti.com>
Cc: Zhihao Cheng <chengzhihao1@huawei.com>,
linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Yuho Choi <dbgh9129@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH v1] mtd: ubi: fix kref leak on -EBUSY return in ubi_detach_mtd_dev()
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2026 21:11:28 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260416011128.45754-1-dbgh9129@gmail.com> (raw)
ubi_detach_mtd_dev() calls ubi_get_device() which increments both
ubi->ref_count and the device kref via get_device(). When the device
is busy and anyway==0, the function returns -EBUSY after releasing
ubi_devices_lock, but never calls put_device() to drop the kref
acquired by ubi_get_device(). This leaks the kref, preventing the
device from ever being freed.
Commit 7e84c961b2eb ("mtd: ubi: introduce pre-removal notification
for UBI volumes") moved put_device() to after ubi->is_dead = true
to pair it with the notify+nullify sequence, but inadvertently left
the early -EBUSY return without a matching put_device().
Add put_device(&ubi->dev) before returning -EBUSY to balance the
get_device() inside ubi_get_device().
Fixes: 7e84c961b2eb ("mtd: ubi: introduce pre-removal notification for UBI volumes")
Signed-off-by: Yuho Choi <dbgh9129@gmail.com>
---
drivers/mtd/ubi/build.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff --git a/drivers/mtd/ubi/build.c b/drivers/mtd/ubi/build.c
index 674ad87809df0..d81f5e0395ac0 100644
--- a/drivers/mtd/ubi/build.c
+++ b/drivers/mtd/ubi/build.c
@@ -1106,6 +1106,7 @@ int ubi_detach_mtd_dev(int ubi_num, int anyway)
if (ubi->ref_count) {
if (!anyway) {
spin_unlock(&ubi_devices_lock);
+ put_device(&ubi->dev);
return -EBUSY;
}
/* This may only happen if there is a bug */
--
2.50.1 (Apple Git-155)
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2026-04-16 1:11 Yuho Choi [this message]
2026-04-16 3:22 ` [PATCH v1] mtd: ubi: fix kref leak on -EBUSY return in ubi_detach_mtd_dev() Zhihao Cheng
2026-04-16 3:34 ` 최유호
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