Re: [PATCH 2/2] usb: typec: fix memory leak

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Tue Mar 08 2022 - 02:09:15 EST


On Mon, Mar 07, 2022 at 10:56:17PM -0800, Yeqi Fu wrote:
> From: Yeqi Fu <fuyq@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Resource release is needed on the error handling branch
> to prevent memory leak. Fix this by adding kfree to the
> error handling branch.
>
> Signed-off-by: Yeqi Fu <fuyq@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/usb/typec/class.c | 4 ++++
> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/usb/typec/class.c b/drivers/usb/typec/class.c
> index ee0e520707dd..e210109c696d 100644
> --- a/drivers/usb/typec/class.c
> +++ b/drivers/usb/typec/class.c
> @@ -2099,6 +2099,7 @@ struct typec_port *typec_register_port(struct device *parent,
> port->cap = kmemdup(cap, sizeof(*cap), GFP_KERNEL);
> if (!port->cap) {
> put_device(&port->dev);
> + kfree(port);
> return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
> }
>
> @@ -2106,6 +2107,7 @@ struct typec_port *typec_register_port(struct device *parent,
> if (IS_ERR(port->sw)) {
> ret = PTR_ERR(port->sw);
> put_device(&port->dev);
> + kfree(port);
> return ERR_PTR(ret);
> }
>
> @@ -2113,6 +2115,7 @@ struct typec_port *typec_register_port(struct device *parent,
> if (IS_ERR(port->mux)) {
> ret = PTR_ERR(port->mux);
> put_device(&port->dev);
> + kfree(port);
> return ERR_PTR(ret);
> }
>
> @@ -2120,6 +2123,7 @@ struct typec_port *typec_register_port(struct device *parent,
> if (ret) {
> dev_err(parent, "failed to register port (%d)\n", ret);
> put_device(&port->dev);
> + kfree(port);
> return ERR_PTR(ret);
> }

How was this tested?