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From: Yang Yingliang <yangyingliang@huawei.com>
To: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>, <rafael@kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH] kobject: fix possible memory leak in kset_create_and_add()
Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2022 10:33:27 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20221017023327.1793893-1-yangyingliang@huawei.com> (raw)

If kset_register() fails in kset_create_and_add(), the name allocated
in kset_create() will be leaked. To fix this by calling kset_put() so
that the name will be freed in callback function kobject_cleanup() and
kset will be freed in kset_release().

unreferenced object 0xffff888103cc8c08 (size 8):
  comm "modprobe", pid 508, jiffies 4294915182 (age 120.020s)
  hex dump (first 8 bytes):
    62 79 5f 6e 61 6d 65 00                          by_name.
  backtrace:
    [<00000000572f97f9>] __kmalloc_track_caller+0x1ae/0x320
    [<00000000a167a5cc>] kstrdup+0x3a/0x70
    [<000000001cd0d05e>] kstrdup_const+0x68/0x80
    [<00000000b9101e6d>] kvasprintf_const+0x10b/0x190
    [<0000000088f2b8df>] kobject_set_name_vargs+0x56/0x150
    [<000000003f8aca68>] kobject_set_name+0xab/0xe0
    [<00000000249f7816>] kset_create_and_add+0x72/0x200

Fixes: b727c702896f ("kset: add kset_create_and_add function")
Signed-off-by: Yang Yingliang <yangyingliang@huawei.com>
---
 lib/kobject.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/lib/kobject.c b/lib/kobject.c
index a0b2dbfcfa23..f5e943c9027b 100644
--- a/lib/kobject.c
+++ b/lib/kobject.c
@@ -982,7 +982,7 @@ struct kset *kset_create_and_add(const char *name,
 		return NULL;
 	error = kset_register(kset);
 	if (error) {
-		kfree(kset);
+		kset_put(kset);
 		return NULL;
 	}
 	return kset;
-- 
2.25.1


             reply	other threads:[~2022-10-17  2:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-10-17  2:33 Yang Yingliang [this message]
2022-10-17  4:51 ` Greg KH
2022-10-17  8:13   ` Yang Yingliang
2022-10-17  8:49     ` Greg KH
2022-10-17  9:01       ` Yang Yingliang
2022-10-17  9:08         ` Greg KH

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