Re: [PATCH v2] chardev: fix error handling in cdev_device_add()

[Greg KH]

On Tue, Oct 25, 2022 at 07:39:57PM +0800, Yang Yingliang wrote:
> While doing fault injection test, I got the following report:
> 
> ------------[ cut here ]------------
> kobject: '(null)' (0000000039956980): is not initialized, yet kobject_put() is being called.
> WARNING: CPU: 3 PID: 6306 at kobject_put+0x23d/0x4e0
> CPU: 3 PID: 6306 Comm: 283 Tainted: G        W          6.1.0-rc2-00005-g307c1086d7c9 #1253
> Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.13.0-1ubuntu1.1 04/01/2014
> RIP: 0010:kobject_put+0x23d/0x4e0
> Call Trace:
>  <TASK>
>  cdev_device_add+0x15e/0x1b0
>  __iio_device_register+0x13b4/0x1af0 [industrialio]
>  __devm_iio_device_register+0x22/0x90 [industrialio]
>  max517_probe+0x3d8/0x6b4 [max517]
>  i2c_device_probe+0xa81/0xc00
> 
> When device_add() is injected fault and returns error, if dev->devt is not set,
> cdev_add() is not called, cdev_del() is not needed. Fix this by checking dev->devt
> in error path.

Nit, please wrap your changelog text at 72 columns.

> 
> Fixes: 233ed09d7fda ("chardev: add helper function to register char devs with a struct device")
> Signed-off-by: Yang Yingliang <yangyingliang@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> v1 -> v2:
>   Add information to update commit message.
>   v1 link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/1959fa74-b06c-b8bc-d14f-b71e5c4290ee@xxxxxxxxxx/T/
> ---
>  fs/char_dev.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/char_dev.c b/fs/char_dev.c
> index ba0ded7842a7..3f667292608c 100644
> --- a/fs/char_dev.c
> +++ b/fs/char_dev.c
> @@ -547,7 +547,7 @@ int cdev_device_add(struct cdev *cdev, struct device *dev)
>  	}
>  
>  	rc = device_add(dev);
> -	if (rc)
> +	if (rc && dev->devt)

No, this is a layering violation and one that you do not know is really
going to be true or not.  the devt being present, or not, should not be
an issue of if the device_add failed or not.  This isn't correct, sorry.

thanks,

greg k-h