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SubjectRe: [PATCH] hwmon: Fix possible memleak in __hwmon_device_register()
On Tue, Oct 12, 2021 at 07:27:58PM +0800, Yang Yingliang wrote:
> I got memory leak as follows when doing fault injection test:
>
> unreferenced object 0xffff888102740438 (size 8):
> comm "27", pid 859, jiffies 4295031351 (age 143.992s)
> hex dump (first 8 bytes):
> 68 77 6d 6f 6e 30 00 00 hwmon0..
> backtrace:
> [<00000000544b5996>] __kmalloc_track_caller+0x1a6/0x300
> [<00000000df0d62b9>] kvasprintf+0xad/0x140
> [<00000000d3d2a3da>] kvasprintf_const+0x62/0x190
> [<000000005f8f0f29>] kobject_set_name_vargs+0x56/0x140
> [<00000000b739e4b9>] dev_set_name+0xb0/0xe0
> [<0000000095b69c25>] __hwmon_device_register+0xf19/0x1e50 [hwmon]
> [<00000000a7e65b52>] hwmon_device_register_with_info+0xcb/0x110 [hwmon]
> [<000000006f181e86>] devm_hwmon_device_register_with_info+0x85/0x100 [hwmon]
> [<0000000081bdc567>] tmp421_probe+0x2d2/0x465 [tmp421]
> [<00000000502cc3f8>] i2c_device_probe+0x4e1/0xbb0
> [<00000000f90bda3b>] really_probe+0x285/0xc30
> [<000000007eac7b77>] __driver_probe_device+0x35f/0x4f0
> [<000000004953d43d>] driver_probe_device+0x4f/0x140
> [<000000002ada2d41>] __device_attach_driver+0x24c/0x330
> [<00000000b3977977>] bus_for_each_drv+0x15d/0x1e0
> [<000000005bf2a8e3>] __device_attach+0x267/0x410
>
> When device_register() returns an error, the name allocated in
> dev_set_name() will be leaked, the put_device() should be used
> instead of calling hwmon_dev_release() to give up the device
> reference, then the name will be freed in kobject_cleanup().
>
> Reported-by: Hulk Robot <hulkci@huawei.com>
> Fixes: bab2243ce189 ("hwmon: Introduce hwmon_device_register_with_groups")
> Signed-off-by: Yang Yingliang <yangyingliang@huawei.com>

Good catch. Applied.

Thanks,
Guenter

> ---
> drivers/hwmon/hwmon.c | 6 ++++--
> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/hwmon/hwmon.c b/drivers/hwmon/hwmon.c
> index 8d3b1dae31df..3501a3ead4ba 100644
> --- a/drivers/hwmon/hwmon.c
> +++ b/drivers/hwmon/hwmon.c
> @@ -796,8 +796,10 @@ __hwmon_device_register(struct device *dev, const char *name, void *drvdata,
> dev_set_drvdata(hdev, drvdata);
> dev_set_name(hdev, HWMON_ID_FORMAT, id);
> err = device_register(hdev);
> - if (err)
> - goto free_hwmon;
> + if (err) {
> + put_device(hdev);
> + goto ida_remove;
> + }
>
> INIT_LIST_HEAD(&hwdev->tzdata);
>

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