From: Ma Ke <make24@iscas.ac.cn>
To: davem@davemloft.net, edumazet@google.com, kuba@kernel.org,
pabeni@redhat.com, horms@kernel.org, sdf@fomichev.me,
atenart@kernel.org, kuniyu@google.com, yajun.deng@linux.dev,
gregkh@suse.de, ebiederm@xmission.com
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
akpm@linux-foundation.org, Ma Ke <make24@iscas.ac.cn>,
stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] net: Fix error handling in netdev_register_kobject
Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2025 16:01:17 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20251107080117.15099-1-make24@iscas.ac.cn> (raw)
After calling device_initialize(), the reference count of the device
is set to 1. If device_add() fails or register_queue_kobjects() fails,
the function returns without calling put_device() to release the
initial reference, causing a memory leak of the device structure.
Similarly, in netdev_unregister_kobject(), after calling device_del(),
there is no call to put_device() to release the initial reference,
leading to a memory leak. Add put_device() in the error paths of
netdev_register_kobject() and after device_del() in
netdev_unregister_kobject() to properly release the device references.
Found by code review.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: a1b3f594dc5f ("net: Expose all network devices in a namespaces in sysfs")
Signed-off-by: Ma Ke <make24@iscas.ac.cn>
---
net/core/net-sysfs.c | 7 ++++++-
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/net/core/net-sysfs.c b/net/core/net-sysfs.c
index ca878525ad7c..d3895f26a0c8 100644
--- a/net/core/net-sysfs.c
+++ b/net/core/net-sysfs.c
@@ -2327,6 +2327,7 @@ void netdev_unregister_kobject(struct net_device *ndev)
pm_runtime_set_memalloc_noio(dev, false);
device_del(dev);
+ put_device(dev);
}
/* Create sysfs entries for network device. */
@@ -2357,7 +2358,7 @@ int netdev_register_kobject(struct net_device *ndev)
error = device_add(dev);
if (error)
- return error;
+ goto out_put_device;
error = register_queue_kobjects(ndev);
if (error) {
@@ -2367,6 +2368,10 @@ int netdev_register_kobject(struct net_device *ndev)
pm_runtime_set_memalloc_noio(dev, true);
+ return 0;
+
+out_put_device:
+ put_device(dev);
return error;
}
--
2.17.1
next reply other threads:[~2025-11-07 8:01 UTC|newest]
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2025-11-07 8:01 Ma Ke [this message]
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2025-11-07 11:20 ` [PATCH] " Eric Dumazet
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