Re: [PATCH] mfd: syscon: Fix leak of syscon name

[Lee Jones]

On Tue, 25 May 2021, Ansuel Smith wrote:

> regmap_init_mmio duplicate the name and never free the provided name in
> the sysconf_config. Always free the name instead of freeing only on
> error to fix error from kmemleak generated by any syscon user.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ansuel Smith <ansuelsmth@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/mfd/syscon.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

Which repo have you authored this against?

I believe this is already fixed in -next.

> diff --git a/drivers/mfd/syscon.c b/drivers/mfd/syscon.c
> index c6f139b2e0c0..765c0210cb52 100644
> --- a/drivers/mfd/syscon.c
> +++ b/drivers/mfd/syscon.c
> @@ -108,6 +108,7 @@ static struct syscon *of_syscon_register(struct device_node *np, bool check_clk)
>  	syscon_config.max_register = resource_size(&res) - reg_io_width;
>  
>  	regmap = regmap_init_mmio(NULL, base, &syscon_config);
> +	kfree(syscon_config.name);
>  	if (IS_ERR(regmap)) {
>  		pr_err("regmap init failed\n");
>  		ret = PTR_ERR(regmap);
> @@ -144,7 +145,6 @@ static struct syscon *of_syscon_register(struct device_node *np, bool check_clk)
>  	regmap_exit(regmap);
>  err_regmap:
>  	iounmap(base);
> -	kfree(syscon_config.name);
>  err_map:
>  	kfree(syscon);
>  	return ERR_PTR(ret);

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