From a4cb1004aeed2ab893a058fad00a5b41a12c4691 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Yang Yingliang <yangyingliang@huawei.com>
Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2022 22:59:29 +0800
Subject: [PATCH] misc: ocxl: fix possible name leak in ocxl_file_register_afu()
Git-commit: a4cb1004aeed2ab893a058fad00a5b41a12c4691
Patch-mainline: v6.2-rc1
References: git-fixes
If device_register() returns error in ocxl_file_register_afu(),
the name allocated by dev_set_name() need be freed. As comment
of device_register() says, it should use put_device() to give
up the reference in the error path. So fix this by calling
put_device(), then the name can be freed in kobject_cleanup(),
and info is freed in info_release().
Fixes: 75ca758adbaf ("ocxl: Create a clear delineation between ocxl backend & frontend")
Signed-off-by: Yang Yingliang <yangyingliang@huawei.com>
Acked-by: Andrew Donnellan <ajd@linux.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Frederic Barrat <fbarrat@linux.ibm.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221111145929.2429271-1-yangyingliang@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Acked-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
---
drivers/misc/ocxl/file.c | 7 +++++--
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/misc/ocxl/file.c b/drivers/misc/ocxl/file.c
index d46dba2df5a1..452d5777a0e4 100644
--- a/drivers/misc/ocxl/file.c
+++ b/drivers/misc/ocxl/file.c
@@ -541,8 +541,11 @@ int ocxl_file_register_afu(struct ocxl_afu *afu)
goto err_put;
rc = device_register(&info->dev);
- if (rc)
- goto err_put;
+ if (rc) {
+ free_minor(info);
+ put_device(&info->dev);
+ return rc;
+ }
rc = ocxl_sysfs_register_afu(info);
if (rc)
--
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