linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 1/1] uio.c: solve memory leak

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Message-ID: <20121211012112.GA11273@local>
Date:	Tue, 11 Dec 2012 02:21:12 +0100
From:	"Hans J. Koch" <hjk@...sjkoch.de>
To:	Cong Ding <dinggnu@...il.com>
Cc:	"Hans J. Koch" <hjk@...sjkoch.de>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/1] uio.c: solve memory leak

On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 05:40:00PM +0000, Cong Ding wrote:
> In version 1, I forgot to modify the same bug in the first loop.
> 
> we have to call kobject_put() to clean up the kobject after function
> kobject_init(), kobject_add(), or kobject_uevent() is called.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Cong Ding <dinggnu@...il.com>

Signed-off-by: "Hans J. Koch" <hjk@...sjkoch.de>

> ---
>  drivers/uio/uio.c |   16 ++++++++++------
>  1 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/uio/uio.c b/drivers/uio/uio.c
> index 5110f36..79774d3 100644
> --- a/drivers/uio/uio.c
> +++ b/drivers/uio/uio.c
> @@ -291,10 +291,10 @@ static int uio_dev_add_attributes(struct uio_device *idev)
>  		mem->map = map;
>  		ret = kobject_add(&map->kobj, idev->map_dir, "map%d", mi);
>  		if (ret)
> -			goto err_map;
> +			goto err_map_kobj;
>  		ret = kobject_uevent(&map->kobj, KOBJ_ADD);
>  		if (ret)
> -			goto err_map;
> +			goto err_map_kobj;
>  	}
>  
>  	for (pi = 0; pi < MAX_UIO_PORT_REGIONS; pi++) {
> @@ -317,23 +317,27 @@ static int uio_dev_add_attributes(struct uio_device *idev)
>  		ret = kobject_add(&portio->kobj, idev->portio_dir,
>  							"port%d", pi);
>  		if (ret)
> -			goto err_portio;
> +			goto err_portio_kobj;
>  		ret = kobject_uevent(&portio->kobj, KOBJ_ADD);
>  		if (ret)
> -			goto err_portio;
> +			goto err_portio_kobj;
>  	}
>  
>  	return 0;
>  
>  err_portio:
> -	for (pi--; pi >= 0; pi--) {
> +	pi--;
> +err_portio_kobj:
> +	for (; pi >= 0; pi--) {
>  		port = &idev->info->port[pi];
>  		portio = port->portio;
>  		kobject_put(&portio->kobj);
>  	}
>  	kobject_put(idev->portio_dir);
>  err_map:
> -	for (mi--; mi>=0; mi--) {
> +	mi--;
> +err_map_kobj:
> +	for (; mi >= 0; mi--) {
>  		mem = &idev->info->mem[mi];
>  		map = mem->map;
>  		kobject_put(&map->kobj);
> -- 
> 1.7.4.5
> 
> 
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