Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] pinctrl: pinmux: Add pinmux-select debugfs file

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

Hi Dan,

On Wed, Feb 10, 2021 at 7:21 PM Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 99b2f99aa41aa7 Drew Fustini  2021-02-09  694    buf = devm_kzalloc(pctldev->dev, PINMUX_MAX_NAME * 2, GFP_KERNEL);
> 99b2f99aa41aa7 Drew Fustini  2021-02-09  695    if (!buf)
> 99b2f99aa41aa7 Drew Fustini  2021-02-09  696            return -ENOMEM;
> 99b2f99aa41aa7 Drew Fustini  2021-02-09  697
> 99b2f99aa41aa7 Drew Fustini  2021-02-09  698    fname = devm_kzalloc(pctldev->dev, PINMUX_MAX_NAME, GFP_KERNEL);
> 99b2f99aa41aa7 Drew Fustini  2021-02-09  699    if (!fname) {
> 99b2f99aa41aa7 Drew Fustini  2021-02-09  700            ret = -ENOMEM;
> 99b2f99aa41aa7 Drew Fustini  2021-02-09  701            goto free_buf;
>
> The gotos are out of order.  They should be in mirror/reverse order of
> the allocations:
>
> free_gmane:
>         devm_kfree(pctldev->dev, gname);
> free_fname:
>         devm_kfree(pctldev->dev, fname);
> free_buf:
>         devm_kfree(pctldev->dev, buf);
>
> But also why do we need to use devm_kfree() at all?  I thought the whole
> point of devm_ functions was that they are garbage collected
> automatically for you.  Can we not just delete all error handling and
> return -ENOMEM here?

No, because the lifetime of the objects allocated here does not match the
lifetime of dev.  If they're not freed here, they will only be freed when the
device is unbound.  As the user can access the sysfs files at will, he can
OOM the system.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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