[PATCH 4.14 078/343] driver: uio: fix possible memory leak in __uio_register_device

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

From: Liu Jian <liujian56@xxxxxxxxxx>

[ Upstream commit 1a392b3de7c5747506b38fc14b2e79977d3c7770 ]

'idev' is malloced in __uio_register_device() and leak free it before
leaving from the uio_get_minor() error handing case, it will cause
memory leak.

Fixes: a93e7b331568 ("uio: Prevent device destruction while fds are open")
Signed-off-by: Liu Jian <liujian56@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Hamish Martin <hamish.martin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
 drivers/uio/uio.c | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/uio/uio.c b/drivers/uio/uio.c
index fb5c9701b1fbd..4e9b0ff79b131 100644
--- a/drivers/uio/uio.c
+++ b/drivers/uio/uio.c
@@ -939,8 +939,10 @@ int __uio_register_device(struct module *owner,
 	atomic_set(&idev->event, 0);
 
 	ret = uio_get_minor(idev);
-	if (ret)
+	if (ret) {
+		kfree(idev);
 		return ret;
+	}
 
 	idev->dev.devt = MKDEV(uio_major, idev->minor);
 	idev->dev.class = &uio_class;
-- 
2.20.1