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Mon, 04 May 2026 05:48:43 -0700 (PDT) From: Valery Borovsky To: Lee Jones Cc: Ben Dooks , Vincent Sanders , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Valery Borovsky , stable@vger.kernel.org Subject: [PATCH v2] mfd: sm501: fix reference leak on failed device registration Date: Mon, 4 May 2026 15:48:41 +0300 Message-ID: <20260504124841.443496-1-vebohr@gmail.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.51.0 In-Reply-To: <6b4a9f5ae8a316b6f07f72f2fe3f0b8fc5f18dff.1777889235.git.vebohr@gmail.com> References: <6b4a9f5ae8a316b6f07f72f2fe3f0b8fc5f18dff.1777889235.git.vebohr@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: stable@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit When platform_device_register() fails in sm501_register_device(), the platform device allocated by sm501_create_subdev() has its struct device initialized by device_initialize() inside platform_device_register(). The error path logs the error but returns without dropping the device reference, leaking the memory allocated by sm501_create_subdev(): sm501_register_device() -> platform_device_register(pdev) -> device_initialize(&pdev->dev) /* kref = 1 */ -> platform_device_add(pdev) /* fails */ <- dev_err() called, kref still 1, sm501_device_release never called The device's release callback (sm501_device_release) calls kfree() on the containing sm501_device structure. Without platform_device_put(), this memory is never freed. Per platform_device_register() kernel-doc: NOTE: _Never_ directly free @pdev after calling this function, even if it returned an error! Always use platform_device_put() to give up the reference initialised in this function instead. Fix this by calling platform_device_put() in the error branch, which triggers sm501_device_release() and frees the allocated memory. Fixes: b6d6454fdb66 ("[PATCH] mfd: SM501 core driver") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Valery Borovsky --- drivers/mfd/sm501.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/mfd/sm501.c b/drivers/mfd/sm501.c index 0ee6d8940e69..8276456b142f 100644 --- a/drivers/mfd/sm501.c +++ b/drivers/mfd/sm501.c @@ -704,9 +704,11 @@ static int sm501_register_device(struct sm501_devdata *sm, if (ret >= 0) { dev_dbg(sm->dev, "registered %s\n", pdev->name); list_add_tail(&smdev->list, &sm->devices); - } else + } else { dev_err(sm->dev, "error registering %s (%d)\n", pdev->name, ret); + platform_device_put(pdev); + } return ret; } -- 2.51.0