This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
cdrom: gdrom: deallocate struct gdrom_unit fields in remove_gdrom
to my char-misc git tree which can be found at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc.git in the char-misc-linus branch.
The patch will show up in the next release of the linux-next tree (usually sometime within the next 24 hours during the week.)
The patch will hopefully also be merged in Linus's tree for the next -rc kernel release.
If you have any questions about this process, please let me know.
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From: Atul Gopinathan atulgopinathan@gmail.com Date: Mon, 3 May 2021 13:56:54 +0200 Subject: cdrom: gdrom: deallocate struct gdrom_unit fields in remove_gdrom
The fields, "toc" and "cd_info", of "struct gdrom_unit gd" are allocated in "probe_gdrom()". Prevent a memory leak by making sure "gd.cd_info" is deallocated in the "remove_gdrom()" function.
Also prevent double free of the field "gd.toc" by moving it from the module's exit function to "remove_gdrom()". This is because, in "probe_gdrom()", the function makes sure to deallocate "gd.toc" in case of any errors, so the exit function invoked later would again free "gd.toc".
The patch also maintains consistency by deallocating the above mentioned fields in "remove_gdrom()" along with another memory allocated field "gd.disk".
Suggested-by: Jens Axboe axboe@kernel.dk Cc: Peter Rosin peda@axentia.se Cc: stable stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Atul Gopinathan atulgopinathan@gmail.com Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210503115736.2104747-28-gregkh@linuxfoundation.o... Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- drivers/cdrom/gdrom.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/cdrom/gdrom.c b/drivers/cdrom/gdrom.c index 7f681320c7d3..6c4f6139f853 100644 --- a/drivers/cdrom/gdrom.c +++ b/drivers/cdrom/gdrom.c @@ -830,6 +830,8 @@ static int remove_gdrom(struct platform_device *devptr) if (gdrom_major) unregister_blkdev(gdrom_major, GDROM_DEV_NAME); unregister_cdrom(gd.cd_info); + kfree(gd.cd_info); + kfree(gd.toc);
return 0; } @@ -861,7 +863,6 @@ static void __exit exit_gdrom(void) { platform_device_unregister(pd); platform_driver_unregister(&gdrom_driver); - kfree(gd.toc); }
module_init(init_gdrom);