From: Zhang Xiaoxu zhangxiaoxu5@huawei.com
[ Upstream commit 895d68a39481a75c680aa421546931fb11942fa6 ]
There is a kmemleak when register device failed: unreferenced object 0xffff888101aab550 (size 8): comm "insmod", pid 3922, jiffies 4295277753 (age 925.408s) hex dump (first 8 bytes): 6d 74 64 30 00 88 ff ff mtd0.... backtrace: [<00000000bde26724>] __kmalloc_node_track_caller+0x4e/0x150 [<000000003c32b416>] kvasprintf+0xb0/0x130 [<000000001f7a8f15>] kobject_set_name_vargs+0x2f/0xb0 [<000000006e781163>] dev_set_name+0xab/0xe0 [<00000000e30d0c78>] add_mtd_device+0x4bb/0x700 [<00000000f3d34de7>] mtd_device_parse_register+0x2ac/0x3f0 [<00000000c0d88488>] 0xffffffffa0238457 [<00000000b40d0922>] 0xffffffffa02a008f [<0000000023d17b9d>] do_one_initcall+0x87/0x2a0 [<00000000770f6ca6>] do_init_module+0xdf/0x320 [<000000007b6768fe>] load_module+0x2f98/0x3330 [<00000000346bed5a>] __do_sys_finit_module+0x113/0x1b0 [<00000000674c2290>] do_syscall_64+0x35/0x80 [<000000004c6a8d97>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x46/0xb0
If register device failed, should call put_device() to give up the reference.
Fixes: 1f24b5a8ecbb ("[MTD] driver model updates") Signed-off-by: Zhang Xiaoxu zhangxiaoxu5@huawei.com Signed-off-by: Miquel Raynal miquel.raynal@bootlin.com Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mtd/20221022121352.2534682-1-zhangxiaoxu5@huaw... Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin sashal@kernel.org --- drivers/mtd/mtdcore.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/mtd/mtdcore.c b/drivers/mtd/mtdcore.c index 477707bcad97..cc7e1fd1ef10 100644 --- a/drivers/mtd/mtdcore.c +++ b/drivers/mtd/mtdcore.c @@ -723,8 +723,10 @@ int add_mtd_device(struct mtd_info *mtd) mtd_check_of_node(mtd); of_node_get(mtd_get_of_node(mtd)); error = device_register(&mtd->dev); - if (error) + if (error) { + put_device(&mtd->dev); goto fail_added; + }
/* Add the nvmem provider */ error = mtd_nvmem_add(mtd);