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authorChen Zhongjin <chenzhongjin@huawei.com>2022-11-11 18:36:53 +0800
committerPeter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>2022-11-15 22:30:12 +0100
commite8d7a90c08ce963c592fb49845f2ccc606a2ac21 (patch)
tree2cb7d966f169e24d019d24923fbedc36c1ab3c39 /kernel/events
parentc55bfbb3ebce4e0956972f02b82673950ad1a2d2 (diff)
downloadlinux-e8d7a90c08ce963c592fb49845f2ccc606a2ac21.tar.gz
perf: Fix possible memleak in pmu_dev_alloc()
In pmu_dev_alloc(), when dev_set_name() failed, it will goto free_dev and call put_device(pmu->dev) to release it. However pmu->dev->release is assigned after this, which makes warning and memleak. Call dev_set_name() after pmu->dev->release = pmu_dev_release to fix it. Device '(null)' does not have a release() function... WARNING: CPU: 2 PID: 441 at drivers/base/core.c:2332 device_release+0x1b9/0x240 ... Call Trace: <TASK> kobject_put+0x17f/0x460 put_device+0x20/0x30 pmu_dev_alloc+0x152/0x400 perf_pmu_register+0x96b/0xee0 ... kmemleak: 1 new suspected memory leaks (see /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak) unreferenced object 0xffff888014759000 (size 2048): comm "modprobe", pid 441, jiffies 4294931444 (age 38.332s) backtrace: [<0000000005aed3b4>] kmalloc_trace+0x27/0x110 [<000000006b38f9b8>] pmu_dev_alloc+0x50/0x400 [<00000000735f17be>] perf_pmu_register+0x96b/0xee0 [<00000000e38477f1>] 0xffffffffc0ad8603 [<000000004e162216>] do_one_initcall+0xd0/0x4e0 ... Fixes: abe43400579d ("perf: Sysfs enumeration") Signed-off-by: Chen Zhongjin <chenzhongjin@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221111103653.91058-1-chenzhongjin@huawei.com
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/events')
-rw-r--r--kernel/events/core.c8
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/events/core.c b/kernel/events/core.c
index baa6edf0503154..5f262f91cd310a 100644
--- a/kernel/events/core.c
+++ b/kernel/events/core.c
@@ -11308,13 +11308,15 @@ static int pmu_dev_alloc(struct pmu *pmu)
pmu->dev->groups = pmu->attr_groups;
device_initialize(pmu->dev);
- ret = dev_set_name(pmu->dev, "%s", pmu->name);
- if (ret)
- goto free_dev;
dev_set_drvdata(pmu->dev, pmu);
pmu->dev->bus = &pmu_bus;
pmu->dev->release = pmu_dev_release;
+
+ ret = dev_set_name(pmu->dev, "%s", pmu->name);
+ if (ret)
+ goto free_dev;
+
ret = device_add(pmu->dev);
if (ret)
goto free_dev;