From nobody Wed Apr 8 01:51:06 2026 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 490A7C433FE for ; Fri, 21 Oct 2022 02:23:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S230027AbiJUCXR (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Oct 2022 22:23:17 -0400 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:37704 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S229973AbiJUCWy (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Oct 2022 22:22:54 -0400 Received: from szxga02-in.huawei.com (szxga02-in.huawei.com [45.249.212.188]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 87D66230AAD for ; Thu, 20 Oct 2022 19:22:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dggpemm500022.china.huawei.com (unknown [172.30.72.57]) by szxga02-in.huawei.com (SkyGuard) with ESMTP id 4MtpCM5YgKzHv3Y; Fri, 21 Oct 2022 10:22:39 +0800 (CST) Received: from dggpemm500007.china.huawei.com (7.185.36.183) by dggpemm500022.china.huawei.com (7.185.36.162) with Microsoft SMTP Server (version=TLS1_2, cipher=TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256) id 15.1.2375.31; Fri, 21 Oct 2022 10:22:40 +0800 Received: from huawei.com (10.175.103.91) by dggpemm500007.china.huawei.com (7.185.36.183) with Microsoft SMTP Server (version=TLS1_2, cipher=TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256) id 15.1.2375.31; Fri, 21 Oct 2022 10:22:39 +0800 From: Yang Yingliang To: , , , , , , CC: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , Subject: [PATCH 04/11] kobject: fix possible memory leak in kset_create_and_add() Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2022 10:20:55 +0800 Message-ID: <20221021022102.2231464-5-yangyingliang@huawei.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.25.1 In-Reply-To: <20221021022102.2231464-1-yangyingliang@huawei.com> References: <20221021022102.2231464-1-yangyingliang@huawei.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Originating-IP: [10.175.103.91] X-ClientProxiedBy: dggems706-chm.china.huawei.com (10.3.19.183) To dggpemm500007.china.huawei.com (7.185.36.183) X-CFilter-Loop: Reflected Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Inject fault while loading module (e.g. qemu_fw_cfg.ko), kset_register() may fail in kset_create_and_add(), if it fails, but the refcount of kobject is not decreased to 0, the name allocated in kset_create() is leaked. To fix this by calling kset_put(), so that name can be freed in callback function kobject_cleanup() and kset can be freed in kset_release(). unreferenced object 0xffff888103cc8c08 (size 8): comm "modprobe", pid 508, jiffies 4294915182 (age 120.020s) hex dump (first 8 bytes): 62 79 5f 6e 61 6d 65 00 by_name. backtrace: [<00000000572f97f9>] __kmalloc_track_caller+0x1ae/0x320 [<00000000a167a5cc>] kstrdup+0x3a/0x70 [<000000001cd0d05e>] kstrdup_const+0x68/0x80 [<00000000b9101e6d>] kvasprintf_const+0x10b/0x190 [<0000000088f2b8df>] kobject_set_name_vargs+0x56/0x150 [<000000003f8aca68>] kobject_set_name+0xab/0xe0 [<00000000249f7816>] kset_create_and_add+0x72/0x200 Fixes: b727c702896f ("kset: add kset_create_and_add function") Signed-off-by: Yang Yingliang --- lib/kobject.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/lib/kobject.c b/lib/kobject.c index 6da04353d974..e77f37200876 100644 --- a/lib/kobject.c +++ b/lib/kobject.c @@ -985,7 +985,7 @@ struct kset *kset_create_and_add(const char *name, return NULL; error =3D kset_register(kset); if (error) { - kfree(kset); + kset_put(kset); return NULL; } return kset; --=20 2.25.1