Re: [PATCH] IB/uverbs: Fix memleak in ib_uverbs_add_one

["Håkon Bugge" <haakon.bugge@oracle.com>]

> On 21 Aug 2020, at 10:10, Dinghao Liu <dinghao.liu@zju.edu.cn> wrote:
> 
> When ida_alloc_max() fails, uverbs_dev should be freed
> just like when init_srcu_struct() fails. It's the same
> for the error paths after this call.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dinghao Liu <dinghao.liu@zju.edu.cn>
> ---
> drivers/infiniband/core/uverbs_main.c | 1 +
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/core/uverbs_main.c b/drivers/infiniband/core/uverbs_main.c
> index 37794d88b1f3..c6b4e3e2aff6 100644
> --- a/drivers/infiniband/core/uverbs_main.c
> +++ b/drivers/infiniband/core/uverbs_main.c
> @@ -1170,6 +1170,7 @@ static int ib_uverbs_add_one(struct ib_device *device)
> 		ib_uverbs_comp_dev(uverbs_dev);
> 	wait_for_completion(&uverbs_dev->comp);
> 	put_device(&uverbs_dev->dev);
> +	kfree(uverbs_dev);

Isn't this taken care of by the *release* function pointer, which happens to be ib_uverbs_release_dev() ?


Thxs, Håkon

> 	return ret;
> }
> 
> -- 
> 2.17.1
>