Re: iio: dummy_evgen: fix possible memleak in evgen init
From: Jonathan Cameron
Date: Mon Apr 22 2019 - 06:46:55 EST
On Thu, 18 Apr 2019 11:02:56 +0800
Pan Bian <bianpan2016@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> The memory allocated in the function iio_dummy_evgen_create is not
> released if it fails to add the evgen device to device hierarchy. This
> may result in a memory leak bug.
>
> Signed-off-by: Pan Bian <bianpan2016@xxxxxxx>
Hi. Not sure why the patch doesn't have the standard [PATCH] prefix
in the title.
This issue has been there a long time, but as the driver is only
a testing stub I'm not going to add a fixes tag or mark it for stable.
That would just be noise I think.
Applied to the togreg branch of iio.git and pushed out as testing
for the autobuilders to play with it.
Thanks,
Jonathan
> ---
> drivers/iio/dummy/iio_dummy_evgen.c | 5 ++++-
> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/iio/dummy/iio_dummy_evgen.c b/drivers/iio/dummy/iio_dummy_evgen.c
> index efd0005..f96c0a3 100644
> --- a/drivers/iio/dummy/iio_dummy_evgen.c
> +++ b/drivers/iio/dummy/iio_dummy_evgen.c
> @@ -196,7 +196,10 @@ static __init int iio_dummy_evgen_init(void)
> return ret;
> device_initialize(&iio_evgen_dev);
> dev_set_name(&iio_evgen_dev, "iio_evgen");
> - return device_add(&iio_evgen_dev);
> + ret = device_add(&iio_evgen_dev);
> + if (ret)
> + put_device(&iio_evgen_dev);
> + return ret;
> }
> module_init(iio_dummy_evgen_init);
>