From: Michail Tatas <michail.tatas@gmail.com>
To: amit@kernel.org, arnd@arndb.de, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
Cc: virtualization@lists.linux.dev, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] virtio_console: Put device on failure
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2026 13:52:46 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <aoWK_qpSBeO6Bw0M@michalis-linux> (raw)
If dma_alloc_coherent() fails, the buffer is freed but not the
reference which is acquired before calling dma_alloc_coherent().
Fix by calling put_device in the error path.
Fixes: 1b6370463e88 ("virtio_console: Add support for remoteproc serial")
Signed-off-by: Michail Tatas <michail.tatas@gmail.com>
---
drivers/char/virtio_console.c | 8 ++++++--
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/char/virtio_console.c b/drivers/char/virtio_console.c
index 62eecfa61646..de83a8a61a8f 100644
--- a/drivers/char/virtio_console.c
+++ b/drivers/char/virtio_console.c
@@ -451,18 +451,22 @@ static struct port_buffer *alloc_buf(struct virtio_device *vdev, size_t buf_size
/* Increase device refcnt to avoid freeing it */
get_device(buf->dev);
buf->buf = dma_alloc_coherent(buf->dev, buf_size, &buf->dma, gfp);
+ if (!buf->buf)
+ goto free_buf_and_put_dev;
} else {
buf->dev = NULL;
buf->buf = kmalloc(buf_size, gfp);
+ if (!buf->buf)
+ goto free_buf;
}
- if (!buf->buf)
- goto free_buf;
buf->len = 0;
buf->offset = 0;
buf->size = buf_size;
return buf;
+free_buf_and_put_dev:
+ put_device(buf->dev);
free_buf:
kfree(buf);
fail:
--
2.43.0
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