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authorYang Yingliang <yangyingliang@huawei.com>2022-11-11 17:59:29 +0300
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2022-12-31 15:32:40 +0300
commit2fce8b3583d1641a1716486f408478b58e96ec91 (patch)
tree5a24f7ac1f7db3b02b0a96f8b2f1197094ed5747 /drivers/misc
parent6dd5fbd243f19f087dc79481acb7d69fb57fea2c (diff)
downloadlinux-2fce8b3583d1641a1716486f408478b58e96ec91.tar.xz
misc: ocxl: fix possible name leak in ocxl_file_register_afu()
[ Upstream commit a4cb1004aeed2ab893a058fad00a5b41a12c4691 ] If device_register() returns error in ocxl_file_register_afu(), the name allocated by dev_set_name() need be freed. As comment of device_register() says, it should use put_device() to give up the reference in the error path. So fix this by calling put_device(), then the name can be freed in kobject_cleanup(), and info is freed in info_release(). Fixes: 75ca758adbaf ("ocxl: Create a clear delineation between ocxl backend & frontend") Signed-off-by: Yang Yingliang <yangyingliang@huawei.com> Acked-by: Andrew Donnellan <ajd@linux.ibm.com> Acked-by: Frederic Barrat <fbarrat@linux.ibm.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221111145929.2429271-1-yangyingliang@huawei.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/misc')
-rw-r--r--drivers/misc/ocxl/file.c7
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/misc/ocxl/file.c b/drivers/misc/ocxl/file.c
index d46dba2df5a1..452d5777a0e4 100644
--- a/drivers/misc/ocxl/file.c
+++ b/drivers/misc/ocxl/file.c
@@ -541,8 +541,11 @@ int ocxl_file_register_afu(struct ocxl_afu *afu)
goto err_put;
rc = device_register(&info->dev);
- if (rc)
- goto err_put;
+ if (rc) {
+ free_minor(info);
+ put_device(&info->dev);
+ return rc;
+ }
rc = ocxl_sysfs_register_afu(info);
if (rc)