Re: [PATCH 2/2] hwmon: core: fix potential memory leak in *hwmon_device_register*

[Eduardo Valentin]

On Tue, May 28, 2019 at 08:06:40AM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> Hi Eduardo,
> 
> On Fri, May 17, 2019 at 04:13:37PM -0700, Eduardo Valentin wrote:
> > When registering a hwmon device with HWMON_C_REGISTER_TZ flag
> > in place, the hwmon subsystem will attempt to register the device
> > also with the thermal subsystem. When the of-thermal registration
> > fails, __hwmon_device_register jumps to ida_remove, leaving
> > the locally allocated hwdev pointer and also the hdev registered.
> > 
> > This patch fixes both issues by jumping to a new label that
> > will first unregister hdev and the fall into the kfree of hwdev
> > to finally remove the idas and propagate the error code.
> > 
> > Cc: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@xxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: linux-hwmon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Cc: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Signed-off-by: Eduardo Valentin <eduval@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >  drivers/hwmon/hwmon.c | 4 +++-
> >  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/hwmon/hwmon.c b/drivers/hwmon/hwmon.c
> > index 6b3559f58b67..6f1194952189 100644
> > --- a/drivers/hwmon/hwmon.c
> > +++ b/drivers/hwmon/hwmon.c
> > @@ -637,7 +637,7 @@ __hwmon_device_register(struct device *dev, const char *name, void *drvdata,
> >  								hwdev, j);
> >  					if (err) {
> >  						device_unregister(hdev);
> > -						goto ida_remove;
> > +						goto device_unregister;
> 
> Good find, but device_unregister() is already called above.
> You need to either remove that, or replace the goto to point to free_hwmon.
> The new label would probably the cleaner solution since it follows the
> coding style.

Right, somehow I completely missed that unregister call. In any case, I will
take the route of adding a new label and remove the unregister call above.

> 
> Thanks
> Guenter
> 
> >  					}
> >  				}
> >  			}
> > @@ -646,6 +646,8 @@ __hwmon_device_register(struct device *dev, const char *name, void *drvdata,
> >  
> >  	return hdev;
> >  
> > +device_unregister:
> > +	device_unregister(hdev);
> >  free_hwmon:
> >  	kfree(hwdev);
> >  ida_remove:
> > -- 
> > 2.21.0
> > 

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All the best,
Eduardo Valentin