[PATCH v3] coresight: etm-perf: Fix reference count leak in etm_setup_aux

Ma Ke posted 1 patch 5 days, 12 hours ago
drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-etm-perf.c | 5 +++++
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
[PATCH v3] coresight: etm-perf: Fix reference count leak in etm_setup_aux
Posted by Ma Ke 5 days, 12 hours ago
bus_find_device() returns a device with its reference count
incremented. When a user-selected sink is obtained through
coresight_get_sink_by_id(), etm_setup_aux() keeps using the returned
sink while building the path and allocating the sink buffer.

Therefore the lookup reference must remain valid while etm_setup_aux()
is still using the sink, otherwise the sink could be removed under the
caller. Drop the lookup reference on the common exit path, after
etm_setup_aux() no longer directly uses the user-selected sink.

The CoreSight path code takes the references it needs for built paths,
so the initial lookup reference from coresight_get_sink_by_id() is no
longer needed after setup_aux finishes.

Found by code review.

Signed-off-by: Ma Ke <make24@iscas.ac.cn>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 0e6c20517596 ("coresight: etm-perf: Allow an event to use different sinks")
---
Changes in v3:
- do not drop the lookup reference in coresight_get_sink_by_id(), as 
that would return a sink pointer without keeping the device reference 
while etm_setup_aux() is still using it.
- dropped the lookup reference in etm_setup_aux on the common exit path, 
as suggested by Suzuki.
- updated the commit message to describe why the reference is kept 
until etm_setup_aux() finishes using the sink.
Changes in v2:
- modified the patch as suggestions.
---
 drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-etm-perf.c | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-etm-perf.c b/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-etm-perf.c
index f85dedf89a3f..d5116177c1b9 100644
--- a/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-etm-perf.c
+++ b/drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-etm-perf.c
@@ -456,6 +456,11 @@ static void *etm_setup_aux(struct perf_event *event, void **pages,
 		goto err;
 
 out:
+	if (user_sink) {
+		put_device(&user_sink->dev);
+		user_sink = NULL;
+	}
+
 	return event_data;
 
 err:
-- 
2.43.0