Re: [PATCH] i2c: fix a potential kmemleak of adapter device

[Wolfram Sang]

On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 09:18:08AM +0800, Gu Zheng wrote:
> When running with the latest kernel, we get the following kmemleak message:
> unreferenced object 0xffff8800c2a36100 (size 256):
>   comm "modprobe", pid 629, jiffies 4294676002 (age 1531.115s)
>   hex dump (first 32 bytes):
>     00 00 00 00 ad 4e ad de ff ff ff ff 00 00 00 00  .....N..........
>     ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff 78 21 85 82 ff ff ff ff  ........x!......
>   backtrace:
>     [<ffffffff815449ce>] kmemleak_alloc+0x73/0x98
>     [<ffffffff8113fa2b>] slab_post_alloc_hook+0x28/0x2a
>     [<ffffffff81142004>] __kmalloc+0x12c/0x158
>     [<ffffffff8134c60b>] kzalloc.constprop.6+0xe/0x10
>     [<ffffffff8134cb71>] device_private_init+0x18/0x66
>     [<ffffffff8134f1e8>] dev_set_drvdata+0x1e/0x34
>     [<ffffffffa01e643e>] i801_probe+0x5d/0x447 [i2c_i801]
>     [<ffffffff812a78be>] local_pci_probe+0x41/0x84
>     [<ffffffff812a7feb>] pci_device_probe+0xdf/0x10c
>     [<ffffffff8134f90d>] driver_probe_device+0x12f/0x2ee
>     [<ffffffff8134fb2b>] __driver_attach+0x5f/0x83
>     [<ffffffff8134de28>] bus_for_each_dev+0x64/0x90
>     [<ffffffff8134f36b>] driver_attach+0x1e/0x20
>     [<ffffffff8134ef34>] bus_add_driver+0xf2/0x1f0
>     [<ffffffff8135013e>] driver_register+0x8c/0xc3
>     [<ffffffff812a7bb4>] __pci_register_driver+0x62/0x67
> According to the backtrace, it seems that we do not release the
> device_private field of adapter device in the fail path of i801_probe
> or the flow of i2c_del_adapter, so add the cleanup step to fix it.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Gu Zheng <guz.fnst@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

? Why should we free something we don't have allocated? The fix must be
somewhere else probably...

> ---
>  drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-i801.c |    1 +
>  drivers/i2c/i2c-core.c        |    1 +
>  2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-i801.c b/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-i801.c
> index 737e298..4bd4fba 100644
> --- a/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-i801.c
> +++ b/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-i801.c
> @@ -1246,6 +1246,7 @@ exit_free_irq:
>  exit_release:
>  	pci_release_region(dev, SMBBAR);
>  exit:
> +	kfree(priv->adapter.dev.p);
>  	kfree(priv);
>  	return err;
>  }
> diff --git a/drivers/i2c/i2c-core.c b/drivers/i2c/i2c-core.c
> index d74c0b3..a7bab9a 100644
> --- a/drivers/i2c/i2c-core.c
> +++ b/drivers/i2c/i2c-core.c
> @@ -1491,6 +1491,7 @@ void i2c_del_adapter(struct i2c_adapter *adap)
>  	idr_remove(&i2c_adapter_idr, adap->nr);
>  	mutex_unlock(&core_lock);
>  
> +	kfree(adap->dev.p);
>  	/* Clear the device structure in case this adapter is ever going to be
>  	   added again */
>  	memset(&adap->dev, 0, sizeof(adap->dev));
> -- 
> 1.7.7
>

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