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[34.93.31.125]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id 98e67ed59e1d1-3476a546ed0sm471842a91.3.2025.11.25.14.56.27 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Tue, 25 Nov 2025 14:56:29 -0800 (PST) From: Navaneeth K To: parthiban.veerasooran@microchip.com, christian.gromm@microchip.com, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Cc: linux-staging@lists.linux.dev, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Navaneeth K Subject: [PATCH v2 1/2] most: core: fix resource leak in most_register_interface error paths Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2025 22:56:05 +0000 Message-ID: <20251125225606.70719-2-knavaneeth786@gmail.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.43.0 In-Reply-To: <20251125225606.70719-1-knavaneeth786@gmail.com> References: <20251125225606.70719-1-knavaneeth786@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" The function most_register_interface() did not correctly release resources if it failed early (before device_register). In these cases, it returned an error code immediately, leaking the memory allocated for the interface. Fix this by initializing the device early via device_initialize() and calling put_device() on all error paths. This ensures the release callback is triggered to free memory. Switch to using device_add() instead of device_register() to handle the split initialization. Signed-off-by: Navaneeth K Acked-by: Abdun Nihaal Reported-by: Abdun Nihaal --- drivers/most/core.c | 9 +++++++-- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/most/core.c b/drivers/most/core.c index da319d108ea1d..8635fd08035e9 100644 --- a/drivers/most/core.c +++ b/drivers/most/core.c @@ -1283,18 +1283,23 @@ int most_register_interface(struct most_interface *= iface) struct most_channel *c; =20 if (!iface || !iface->enqueue || !iface->configure || - !iface->poison_channel || (iface->num_channels > MAX_CHANNELS)) + !iface->poison_channel || (iface->num_channels > MAX_CHANNELS) || + !iface->dev) return -EINVAL; =20 + device_initialize(iface->dev); + id =3D ida_alloc(&mdev_id, GFP_KERNEL); if (id < 0) { dev_err(iface->dev, "Failed to allocate device ID\n"); + put_device(iface->dev); return id; } =20 iface->p =3D kzalloc(sizeof(*iface->p), GFP_KERNEL); if (!iface->p) { ida_free(&mdev_id, id); + put_device(iface->dev); return -ENOMEM; } =20 @@ -1304,7 +1309,7 @@ int most_register_interface(struct most_interface *if= ace) iface->dev->bus =3D &mostbus; iface->dev->groups =3D interface_attr_groups; dev_set_drvdata(iface->dev, iface); - if (device_register(iface->dev)) { + if (device_add(iface->dev)) { dev_err(iface->dev, "Failed to register interface device\n"); kfree(iface->p); put_device(iface->dev); --=20 2.43.0