Re: Re: [PATCH] IB/uverbs: Fix memleak in ib_uverbs_add_one

[dinghao . liu]

> 
> > On 21 Aug 2020, at 10:10, Dinghao Liu <dinghao.liu@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 
> > When ida_alloc_max() fails, uverbs_dev should be freed
> > just like when init_srcu_struct() fails. It's the same
> > for the error paths after this call.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Dinghao Liu <dinghao.liu@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > drivers/infiniband/core/uverbs_main.c | 1 +
> > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/core/uverbs_main.c b/drivers/infiniband/core/uverbs_main.c
> > index 37794d88b1f3..c6b4e3e2aff6 100644
> > --- a/drivers/infiniband/core/uverbs_main.c
> > +++ b/drivers/infiniband/core/uverbs_main.c
> > @@ -1170,6 +1170,7 @@ static int ib_uverbs_add_one(struct ib_device *device)
> > 		ib_uverbs_comp_dev(uverbs_dev);
> > 	wait_for_completion(&uverbs_dev->comp);
> > 	put_device(&uverbs_dev->dev);
> > +	kfree(uverbs_dev);
> 
> Isn't this taken care of by the *release* function pointer, which happens to be ib_uverbs_release_dev() ?
> 

You are right, thank you for pointing out that!

Regards,
Dinghao