Re: [PATCH] EDAC/sysfs: Fix calling kobject_put() without kobj initialization

[Harshit Mogalapalli <harshit.m.mogalapalli@oracle.com>]

Hi Greg,

On 28/11/23 9:58 pm, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 28, 2023 at 05:09:52AM -0800, Harshit Mogalapalli wrote:
>> In edac_pci_main_kobj_setup() when dev_root is NULL,
>> kobject_init_and_add() is not called.
>>
>>          if (err) { // err = -ENODEV;
>>                  edac_dbg(1, "Failed to register '.../edac/pci'\n");
>>                  goto kobject_init_and_add_fail; // call to kobject_put()
>>          }
>>
>> This will cause a runtime warning in kobject_put() if the above happens.
>> Warning:
>> "kobject: '%s' (%p): is not initialized, yet kobject_put() is being called."
>>
>> Fix the error handling to avoid the above possible situation.
>>
>> Fixes: cb4a0bec0bb9 ("EDAC/sysfs: move to use bus_get_dev_root()")
>> Signed-off-by: Harshit Mogalapalli <harshit.m.mogalapalli@oracle.com>
>> ---
>> This is based on static analysis with Smatch and only compile tested.
>> ---
>>   drivers/edac/edac_pci_sysfs.c | 14 ++++++++------
>>   1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/edac/edac_pci_sysfs.c b/drivers/edac/edac_pci_sysfs.c
>> index 901d4cd3ca38..71a0d4b9c2cf 100644
>> --- a/drivers/edac/edac_pci_sysfs.c
>> +++ b/drivers/edac/edac_pci_sysfs.c
>> @@ -370,12 +370,14 @@ static int edac_pci_main_kobj_setup(void)
>>   
>>   	/* Instanstiate the pci object */
>>   	dev_root = bus_get_dev_root(edac_subsys);
>> -	if (dev_root) {
>> -		err = kobject_init_and_add(edac_pci_top_main_kobj,
>> -					   &ktype_edac_pci_main_kobj,
>> -					   &dev_root->kobj, "pci");
>> -		put_device(dev_root);
>> -	}
>> +	if (!dev_root)
>> +		goto kzalloc_fail;
>> +
>> +	err = kobject_init_and_add(edac_pci_top_main_kobj,
>> +				   &ktype_edac_pci_main_kobj,
>> +				   &dev_root->kobj, "pci");
>> +	put_device(dev_root);
>> +
>>   	if (err) {
>>   		edac_dbg(1, "Failed to register '.../edac/pci'\n");
>>   		goto kobject_init_and_add_fail;
>> -- 
>> 2.39.3
>>
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No, this is a similar bug but in the edac_pci_sysfs.c file instead of 
the edac_device_sysfs.c.

Let me resend these two patches as a patchset and change the subject to 
make it more obvious(EDAC/pci_sysfs, EDAC/device_sysfs in title).  And 
add a CC stable tag.

Thanks,
Harshit

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