Hi Michał,
On 8/12/20 4:31 AM, Michał Mirosław wrote:
> By calling device_initialize() earlier and noting that kfree(NULL) is
> ok, we can save a bit of code in error handling and plug of_node leak.
> Fixed commit already did part of the work.
>
> Cc: sta...@vger.kernel.org
> Fixes: 9177514ce349 ("regulator: fix memory leak on error path of
> regulator_register()")
> Signed-off-by: Michał Mirosław
> Acked-by: Vladimir Zapolskiy
> ---
> drivers/regulator/core.c | 13 -
> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/regulator/core.c b/drivers/regulator/core.c
> index 71749f48caee..448a267641df 100644
> --- a/drivers/regulator/core.c
> +++ b/drivers/regulator/core.c
> @@ -5137,6 +5137,7 @@ regulator_register(const struct regulator_desc
> *regulator_desc,
> ret = -ENOMEM;
> goto rinse;
> }
> + device_initialize(>dev);
>
> /*
>* Duplicate the config so the driver could override it after
> @@ -5144,9 +5145,8 @@ regulator_register(const struct regulator_desc
> *regulator_desc,
>*/
> config = kmemdup(cfg, sizeof(*cfg), GFP_KERNEL);
> if (config == NULL) {
> - kfree(rdev);
> ret = -ENOMEM;
> - goto rinse;
> + goto clean;
Here config == NULL
> }
>
> init_data = regulator_of_get_init_data(dev, regulator_desc, config,
> @@ -5158,10 +5158,8 @@ regulator_register(const struct regulator_desc
> *regulator_desc,
>* from a gpio extender or something else.
>*/
> if (PTR_ERR(init_data) == -EPROBE_DEFER) {
> - kfree(config);
> - kfree(rdev);
> ret = -EPROBE_DEFER;
> - goto rinse;
> + goto clean;
> }
>
> /*
> @@ -5214,7 +5212,6 @@ regulator_register(const struct regulator_desc
> *regulator_desc,
> }
>
> /* register with sysfs */
> - device_initialize(>dev);
> rdev->dev.class = _class;
> rdev->dev.parent = dev;
> dev_set_name(>dev, "regulator.%lu",
> @@ -5292,13 +5289,11 @@ regulator_register(const struct regulator_desc
> *regulator_desc,
> mutex_lock(_list_mutex);
> regulator_ena_gpio_free(rdev);
> mutex_unlock(_list_mutex);
> - put_device(>dev);
> - rdev = NULL;
> clean:
> if (dangling_of_gpiod)
> gpiod_put(config->ena_gpiod);
And above 'config' NULL pointer could be dereferenced now, right?
> - kfree(rdev);
> kfree(config);
> + put_device(>dev);
> rinse:
> if (dangling_cfg_gpiod)
> gpiod_put(cfg->ena_gpiod);
>
--
Best wishes,
Vladimir