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From: "Fabio M. De Francesco" <fmdefrancesco@gmail.com>
To: axboe@kernel.dk, linux-block@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, syzkaller-bugs@googlegroups.com,
	"James E.J. Bottomley" <jejb@linux.ibm.com>,
	"Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>,
	linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org,
	Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Cc: "Fabio M. De Francesco" <fmdefrancesco@gmail.com>,
	syzbot+f08c77040fa163a75a46@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Subject: [PATCH] scsi: sd: call device_del() if device_add_disk() fails
Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2022 17:49:48 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220329154948.10350-1-fmdefrancesco@gmail.com> (raw)

In sd_probe(), if device_add_disk() fails it simply calls put_device()
and jumps to the "out" label but the device is never deleted from system.
This leads to a memory leak as reported by Syzbot.[1]

Fix this bug by calling device_del() soon before put_device() when 
device_add_disk() fails.

[1] [syzbot] memory leak in blk_mq_init_tags
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/000000000000c341cc05db38c1b0@google.com/

Reported-by: syzbot+f08c77040fa163a75a46@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Suggested-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Fixes: 2a7a891f4c40 ("scsi: sd: Add error handling support for add_disk()")
Signed-off-by: Fabio M. De Francesco <fmdefrancesco@gmail.com>
---

This patch replace the previous attempt to fix the bug reported by
Syzbot. Therefore, the previous wrong patch at 
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20220328084452.11479-1-fmdefrancesco@gmail.com/
must be discarded.

Many thanks to Dan Carpenter.

 drivers/scsi/sd.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/drivers/scsi/sd.c b/drivers/scsi/sd.c
index a390679cf458..13d96d0f9dde 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/sd.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/sd.c
@@ -3474,6 +3474,7 @@ static int sd_probe(struct device *dev)
 
 	error = device_add_disk(dev, gd, NULL);
 	if (error) {
+		device_del(&sdkp->disk_dev);
 		put_device(&sdkp->disk_dev);
 		goto out;
 	}
-- 
2.34.1


             reply	other threads:[~2022-03-29 15:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-03-29 15:49 Fabio M. De Francesco [this message]
2022-03-30  4:30 ` Dan Carpenter
2022-03-31 15:26 ` Wenchao Hao
2022-03-31  5:41   ` Dan Carpenter
2022-03-31  5:45     ` Christoph Hellwig
2022-03-31  9:07       ` Fabio M. De Francesco
2022-03-31  9:13         ` Christoph Hellwig
2022-03-31 10:13           ` Fabio M. De Francesco
2022-03-31 12:14     ` Wenchao Hao
2022-03-31 13:42       ` Dan Carpenter
2022-03-31 14:19         ` James Bottomley
2022-03-31 15:11           ` Dan Carpenter
2022-03-31 16:14         ` Fabio M. De Francesco
2022-03-31 16:24           ` Dan Carpenter
2022-03-31 17:21             ` Fabio M. De Francesco

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