linux-kernel - [PATCH 2/5] misc: fastrpc: fix memory leak from miscdev->name

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Date:   Fri, 13 Sep 2019 17:25:29 +0200
From:   Jorge Ramirez-Ortiz <jorge.ramirez-ortiz@...aro.org>
To:     jorge.ramirez-ortiz@...aro.org, gregkh@...uxfoundation.org,
        arnd@...db.de, srinivas.kandagatla@...aro.org
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-msm@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 2/5] misc: fastrpc: fix memory leak from miscdev->name

From: Srinivas Kandagatla <srinivas.kandagatla@...aro.org>

Fix a memory leak in miscdev->name by using devm_variant

Orignally reported by kmemleak:
    [<ffffff80088b74d8>] kmemleak_alloc+0x50/0x84
    [<ffffff80081e015c>] __kmalloc_track_caller+0xe8/0x168
    [<ffffff8008371ab0>] kvasprintf+0x78/0x100
    [<ffffff8008371c6c>] kasprintf+0x50/0x74
    [<ffffff8008507f2c>] fastrpc_rpmsg_probe+0xd8/0x20c
    [<ffffff80086b63b4>] rpmsg_dev_probe+0xa8/0x148
    [<ffffff80084de50c>] really_probe+0x208/0x248
    [<ffffff80084de2dc>] driver_probe_device+0x98/0xc0
    [<ffffff80084dec6c>] __device_attach_driver+0x9c/0xac
    [<ffffff80084dca8c>] bus_for_each_drv+0x60/0x8c
    [<ffffff80084de64c>] __device_attach+0x8c/0x100
    [<ffffff80084de6e0>] device_initial_probe+0x20/0x28
    [<ffffff80084dcbd0>] bus_probe_device+0x34/0x7c
    [<ffffff80084da32c>] device_add+0x420/0x498
    [<ffffff80084da680>] device_register+0x24/0x2c

Signed-off-by: Srinivas Kandagatla <srinivas.kandagatla@...aro.org>
---
 drivers/misc/fastrpc.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/misc/fastrpc.c b/drivers/misc/fastrpc.c
index 8903388993d3..bc03500bfe60 100644
--- a/drivers/misc/fastrpc.c
+++ b/drivers/misc/fastrpc.c
@@ -1599,8 +1599,8 @@ static int fastrpc_rpmsg_probe(struct rpmsg_device *rpdev)
 	}
 
 	data->miscdev.minor = MISC_DYNAMIC_MINOR;
-	data->miscdev.name = kasprintf(GFP_KERNEL, "fastrpc-%s",
-				domains[domain_id]);
+	data->miscdev.name = devm_kasprintf(rdev, GFP_KERNEL, "fastrpc-%s",
+					    domains[domain_id]);
 	data->miscdev.fops = &fastrpc_fops;
 	err = misc_register(&data->miscdev);
 	if (err)
-- 
2.23.0