From: Ma Ke <make24@iscas.ac.cn>
To: suzuki.poulose@arm.com, mike.leach@linaro.org,
james.clark@linaro.org, alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com,
mathieu.poirier@linaro.org
Cc: coresight@lists.linaro.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
Ma Ke <make24@iscas.ac.cn>,
stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH v2] coresight: etm-perf: Fix reference count leak in etm_setup_aux
Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2025 09:24:05 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20251112012405.11731-1-make24@iscas.ac.cn> (raw)
In etm_setup_aux(), when a user sink is obtained via
coresight_get_sink_by_id(), it increments the reference count of the
sink device. However, if the sink is used in path building, the path
holds a reference, but the initial reference from
coresight_get_sink_by_id() is not released, causing a reference count
leak. We should release the initial reference after the path is built.
Found by code review.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 0e6c20517596 ("coresight: etm-perf: Allow an event to use different sinks")
Signed-off-by: Ma Ke <make24@iscas.ac.cn>
---
Changes in v2:
- modified the patch as suggestions.
---
drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-etm-perf.c | 5 +++++
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-etm-perf.c b/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-etm-perf.c
index f677c08233ba..8a5a59434cc9 100644
--- a/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-etm-perf.c
+++ b/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-etm-perf.c
@@ -454,6 +454,11 @@ static void *etm_setup_aux(struct perf_event *event, void **pages,
goto err;
out:
+ if (user_sink) {
+ put_device(&user_sink->dev);
+ user_sink = NULL;
+ }
+
return event_data;
err:
--
2.17.1
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