Re: [PATCH] drivers: base: transport_class: fix possible memory leak

[Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Thu, Nov 10, 2022 at 11:48:09AM +0800, Yang Yingliang wrote:
> Current some drivers(like iscsi) call transport_register_device()
> failed, they don't call transport_destroy_device() to release the
> memory allocated in transport_setup_device(), because they don't
> know what was done, it should be internal thing to release the
> resource in register function. So fix this leak by calling destroy
> function inside register function.
> 
> Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
> Signed-off-by: Yang Yingliang <yangyingliang@huawei.com>
> ---
>  include/linux/transport_class.h | 9 ++++++++-
>  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/include/linux/transport_class.h b/include/linux/transport_class.h
> index 63076fb835e3..f4835250bbfc 100644
> --- a/include/linux/transport_class.h
> +++ b/include/linux/transport_class.h
> @@ -70,8 +70,15 @@ void transport_destroy_device(struct device *);
>  static inline int
>  transport_register_device(struct device *dev)
>  {
> +	int ret;
> +
>  	transport_setup_device(dev);
> -	return transport_add_device(dev);
> +	ret = transport_add_device(dev);
> +	if (ret) {
> +		transport_destroy_device(dev);
> +	}

Please use scripts/checkpatch.pl on your patches before sending them out
so you don't get grumpy maintainers asking you to use
scripts/checkpatch.pl on your patches :)

thanks,

greg k-h