Re: FAILED: patch "[PATCH] firmware: qemu_fw_cfg: fix kobject leak in probe error path" failed to apply to 4.14-stable tree

[Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com>]

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Hi Greg,

On Tue, Jan 18, 2022 at 09:51:44AM +0100, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org wrote:
> 
> The patch below does not apply to the 4.14-stable tree.
> If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm
> tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit
> id to <stable@vger.kernel.org>.

Here is the backport along with the backport of:
fe3c60684377 ("firmware: Fix a reference count leak.") which was needed to
make the backport easier. Both will also apply to 4.9-stable.

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Regards
Sudip

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From cee693694f56f4819bc92e406eeb4f44151b3851 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Qiushi Wu <wu000273@umn.edu>
Date: Sat, 13 Jun 2020 14:05:33 -0500
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] firmware: Fix a reference count leak.

commit fe3c60684377d5ad9b0569b87ed3e26e12c8173b upstream.

kobject_init_and_add() takes reference even when it fails.
If this function returns an error, kobject_put() must be called to
properly clean up the memory associated with the object.
Callback function fw_cfg_sysfs_release_entry() in kobject_put()
can handle the pointer "entry" properly.

Signed-off-by: Qiushi Wu <wu000273@umn.edu>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200613190533.15712-1-wu000273@umn.edu
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
[sudip: adjust context]
Signed-off-by: Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com>
---
 drivers/firmware/qemu_fw_cfg.c | 7 ++++---
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/firmware/qemu_fw_cfg.c b/drivers/firmware/qemu_fw_cfg.c
index 586dedadb2f0..59ecbed32042 100644
--- a/drivers/firmware/qemu_fw_cfg.c
+++ b/drivers/firmware/qemu_fw_cfg.c
@@ -461,8 +461,10 @@ static int fw_cfg_register_file(const struct fw_cfg_file *f)
 	/* register entry under "/sys/firmware/qemu_fw_cfg/by_key/" */
 	err = kobject_init_and_add(&entry->kobj, &fw_cfg_sysfs_entry_ktype,
 				   fw_cfg_sel_ko, "%d", entry->f.select);
-	if (err)
-		goto err_register;
+	if (err) {
+		kobject_put(&entry->kobj);
+		return err;
+	}
 
 	/* add raw binary content access */
 	err = sysfs_create_bin_file(&entry->kobj, &fw_cfg_sysfs_attr_raw);
@@ -478,7 +480,6 @@ static int fw_cfg_register_file(const struct fw_cfg_file *f)
 
 err_add_raw:
 	kobject_del(&entry->kobj);
-err_register:
 	kfree(entry);
 	return err;
 }
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From a0efe2fb6149f222be297da49d80fd05ec22c915 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2021 14:25:26 +0100
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] firmware: qemu_fw_cfg: fix kobject leak in probe error
 path

commit 47a1db8e797da01a1309bf42e0c0d771d4e4d4f3 upstream.

An initialised kobject must be freed using kobject_put() to avoid
leaking associated resources (e.g. the object name).

Commit fe3c60684377 ("firmware: Fix a reference count leak.") "fixed"
the leak in the first error path of the file registration helper but
left the second one unchanged. This "fix" would however result in a NULL
pointer dereference due to the release function also removing the never
added entry from the fw_cfg_entry_cache list. This has now been
addressed.

Fix the remaining kobject leak by restoring the common error path and
adding the missing kobject_put().

Fixes: 75f3e8e47f38 ("firmware: introduce sysfs driver for QEMU's fw_cfg device")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org      # 4.6
Cc: Gabriel Somlo <somlo@cmu.edu>
Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211201132528.30025-3-johan@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
[sudip: adjust context]
Signed-off-by: Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com>
---
 drivers/firmware/qemu_fw_cfg.c | 13 ++++++-------
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/firmware/qemu_fw_cfg.c b/drivers/firmware/qemu_fw_cfg.c
index 59ecbed32042..047d3fd08474 100644
--- a/drivers/firmware/qemu_fw_cfg.c
+++ b/drivers/firmware/qemu_fw_cfg.c
@@ -461,15 +461,13 @@ static int fw_cfg_register_file(const struct fw_cfg_file *f)
 	/* register entry under "/sys/firmware/qemu_fw_cfg/by_key/" */
 	err = kobject_init_and_add(&entry->kobj, &fw_cfg_sysfs_entry_ktype,
 				   fw_cfg_sel_ko, "%d", entry->f.select);
-	if (err) {
-		kobject_put(&entry->kobj);
-		return err;
-	}
+	if (err)
+		goto err_put_entry;
 
 	/* add raw binary content access */
 	err = sysfs_create_bin_file(&entry->kobj, &fw_cfg_sysfs_attr_raw);
 	if (err)
-		goto err_add_raw;
+		goto err_del_entry;
 
 	/* try adding "/sys/firmware/qemu_fw_cfg/by_name/" symlink */
 	fw_cfg_build_symlink(fw_cfg_fname_kset, &entry->kobj, entry->f.name);
@@ -478,9 +476,10 @@ static int fw_cfg_register_file(const struct fw_cfg_file *f)
 	fw_cfg_sysfs_cache_enlist(entry);
 	return 0;
 
-err_add_raw:
+err_del_entry:
 	kobject_del(&entry->kobj);
-	kfree(entry);
+err_put_entry:
+	kobject_put(&entry->kobj);
 	return err;
 }
 
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