Re: [PATCH] staging: comedi: Fix comedi_device refcnt leak in comedi_open

[Ian Abbott]

On 20/04/2020 06:44, Xiyu Yang wrote:
> comedi_open() invokes comedi_dev_get_from_minor(), which returns a
> reference of the COMEDI device to "dev" with increased refcount.
>
> When comedi_open() returns, "dev" becomes invalid, so the refcount
> should be decreased to keep refcount balanced.
>
> The reference counting issue happens in one exception handling path of
> comedi_open(). When "cfp" allocation is failed, the refcnt increased by
> comedi_dev_get_from_minor() is not decreased, causing a refcnt leak.
>
> Fix this issue by calling comedi_dev_put() on this error path when "cfp"
> allocation is failed.
>
> Fixes: 20f083c07565 ("staging: comedi: prepare support for per-file read
> and write subdevices")
> Signed-off-by: Xiyu Yang <xiyuyang19@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Xin Tan <tanxin.ctf@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>   drivers/staging/comedi/comedi_fops.c | 4 +++-
>   1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/comedi/comedi_fops.c b/drivers/staging/comedi/comedi_fops.c
> index 08d1bbbebf2d..e84b4fb493d6 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/comedi/comedi_fops.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/comedi/comedi_fops.c
> @@ -2725,8 +2725,10 @@ static int comedi_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)
>   	}
>   
>   	cfp = kzalloc(sizeof(*cfp), GFP_KERNEL);
> -	if (!cfp)
> +	if (!cfp) {
> +		comedi_dev_put(dev);
>   		return -ENOMEM;
> +	}
>   
>   	cfp->dev = dev;
>   

Thanks for spotting that!

Signed-off-by: Ian Abbott <abbotti@xxxxxxxxx>

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