Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] phy: mdio: fix memory leak

[Dan Carpenter]

On Tue, Sep 28, 2021 at 11:40:15PM +0300, Pavel Skripkin wrote:
> Syzbot reported memory leak in MDIO bus interface, the problem was in
> wrong state logic.
> 
> MDIOBUS_ALLOCATED indicates 2 states:
> 	1. Bus is only allocated
> 	2. Bus allocated and __mdiobus_register() fails, but
> 	   device_register() was called
> 
> In case of device_register() has been called we should call put_device()
> to correctly free the memory allocated for this device, but mdiobus_free()
> calls just kfree(dev) in case of MDIOBUS_ALLOCATED state
> 
> To avoid this behaviour we need to set bus->state to MDIOBUS_UNREGISTERED
> _before_ calling device_register(), because put_device() should be
> called even in case of device_register() failure.
> 
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/YVMRWNDZDUOvQjHL@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/ 
> Fixes: 46abc02175b3 ("phylib: give mdio buses a device tree presence")
> Reported-and-tested-by: syzbot+398e7dc692ddbbb4cfec@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Signed-off-by: Pavel Skripkin <paskripkin@xxxxxxxxx>

Thanks!

Reviewed-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>

regards,
dan carpenter