From: Krishan Singh <krishanmohan298@gmail.com>
To: linux@armlinux.org.uk
Cc: andrew@lunn.ch, hkallweit1@gmail.com, davem@davemloft.net,
edumazet@google.com, kuba@kernel.org, pabeni@redhat.com,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Krishan Singh <krishanmohan298@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH] net: sfp: Fix memory leak of hwmon_name on hwmon registration failure
Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2026 09:54:35 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260805042435.194101-1-krishanmohan298@gmail.com> (raw)
hwmon_sanitize_name() allocates sfp->hwmon_name before
hwmon_device_register_with_info() is called. If the registration
fails, sfp->hwmon_dev is left as an error pointer while
sfp->hwmon_name remains allocated.
Later, when the SFP module is removed, sfp_hwmon_remove() is still
called. However, it frees sfp->hwmon_name only when
!IS_ERR_OR_NULL(sfp->hwmon_dev) is true. Since sfp->hwmon_dev is an
error pointer in the failure case, the cleanup block is skipped and
hwmon_name is leaked.
Fix this by cleaning up hwmon_name independently of hwmon_dev.
Continue to unregister the hwmon device only when hwmon_dev is valid,
but free hwmon_name whenever it is a valid allocated pointer.
Fixes: 3f118c449c8e ("net: sfp: use hwmon_sanitize_name()")
Suggested-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
Signed-off-by: Krishan Singh <krishanmohan298@gmail.com>
---
drivers/net/phy/sfp.c | 6 +++++-
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/phy/sfp.c b/drivers/net/phy/sfp.c
index f52020673..f605fb399 100644
--- a/drivers/net/phy/sfp.c
+++ b/drivers/net/phy/sfp.c
@@ -1895,9 +1895,13 @@ static void sfp_hwmon_probe(struct work_struct *work)
sfp->hwmon_name, sfp,
&sfp_hwmon_chip_info,
NULL);
- if (IS_ERR(sfp->hwmon_dev))
+ if (IS_ERR(sfp->hwmon_dev)) {
dev_err(sfp->dev, "failed to register hwmon device: %ld\n",
PTR_ERR(sfp->hwmon_dev));
+ kfree(sfp->hwmon_name);
+ sfp->hwmon_name = NULL;
+ sfp->hwmon_dev = NULL;
+ }
}
static int sfp_hwmon_insert(struct sfp *sfp)
--
2.34.1
next reply other threads:[~2026-08-05 4:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-08-05 4:24 Krishan Singh [this message]
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2026-08-05 4:36 [PATCH] net: sfp: Fix memory leak of hwmon_name on hwmon registration failure Krishan Singh
2026-08-05 11:58 ` Andrew Lunn
2026-08-07 7:22 ` krishan mohan
2026-08-07 14:01 ` Andrew Lunn
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