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authorYang Yingliang <yangyingliang@huawei.com>2022-11-12 12:25:41 +0300
committerDominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>2023-09-03 10:46:00 +0300
commite3ea1b4847e49234e691c0d66bf030bd65bb7f2b (patch)
tree2f7ea1061547f18cd78bac916a946693e050506c /drivers/pcmcia
parent2dde18cd1d8fac735875f2e4987f11817cc0bc2c (diff)
downloadlinux-e3ea1b4847e49234e691c0d66bf030bd65bb7f2b.tar.xz
pcmcia: cs: fix possible hung task and memory leak pccardd()
If device_register() returns error in pccardd(), it leads two issues: 1. The socket_released has never been completed, it will block pcmcia_unregister_socket(), because of waiting for completion of socket_released. 2. The device name allocated by dev_set_name() is leaked. Fix this two issues by calling put_device() when device_register() fails. socket_released can be completed in pcmcia_release_socket(), the name can be freed in kobject_cleanup(). Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2") Signed-off-by: Yang Yingliang <yangyingliang@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/pcmcia')
-rw-r--r--drivers/pcmcia/cs.c1
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/pcmcia/cs.c b/drivers/pcmcia/cs.c
index 5658745c398f..b33be1e63c98 100644
--- a/drivers/pcmcia/cs.c
+++ b/drivers/pcmcia/cs.c
@@ -605,6 +605,7 @@ static int pccardd(void *__skt)
dev_warn(&skt->dev, "PCMCIA: unable to register socket\n");
skt->thread = NULL;
complete(&skt->thread_done);
+ put_device(&skt->dev);
return 0;
}
ret = pccard_sysfs_add_socket(&skt->dev);