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Message-Id: <20250630-lmi-fix-v3-2-ce4f81c9c481@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2025 14:31:20 -0300
From: Kurt Borja <kuurtb@...il.com>
To: Mark Pearson <mpearson-lenovo@...ebb.ca>, 
 Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@...ux.intel.com>, 
 Hans de Goede <hansg@...nel.org>
Cc: platform-driver-x86@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, 
 Kurt Borja <kuurtb@...il.com>, stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH v3 2/3] platform/x86: think-lmi: Fix kobject cleanup

In tlmi_analyze(), allocated structs with an embedded kobject are freed
in error paths after the they were already initialized.

Fix this by first by avoiding the initialization of kobjects in
tlmi_analyze() and then by correctly cleaning them up in
tlmi_release_attr() using their kset's kobject list.

Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org
Fixes: a40cd7ef22fb ("platform/x86: think-lmi: Add WMI interface support on Lenovo platforms")
Fixes: 30e78435d3bf ("platform/x86: think-lmi: Split kobject_init() and kobject_add() calls")
Reviewed-by: Mark Pearson <mpearson-lenovo@...ebb.ca>
Reviewed-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@...ux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Kurt Borja <kuurtb@...il.com>
---
 drivers/platform/x86/think-lmi.c | 35 +++++++++++++++++++----------------
 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/platform/x86/think-lmi.c b/drivers/platform/x86/think-lmi.c
index 4c10a26e7e5e3471f286136d671606acf68b401e..3e5e6e6031efcefe6b3d31bc144e738599566d98 100644
--- a/drivers/platform/x86/think-lmi.c
+++ b/drivers/platform/x86/think-lmi.c
@@ -1380,13 +1380,13 @@ static struct kobj_attribute debug_cmd = __ATTR_WO(debug_cmd);
 /* ---- Initialisation --------------------------------------------------------- */
 static void tlmi_release_attr(void)
 {
+	struct kobject *pos, *n;
 	int i;
 
 	/* Attribute structures */
 	for (i = 0; i < TLMI_SETTINGS_COUNT; i++) {
 		if (tlmi_priv.setting[i]) {
 			sysfs_remove_group(&tlmi_priv.setting[i]->kobj, &tlmi_attr_group);
-			kobject_put(&tlmi_priv.setting[i]->kobj);
 		}
 	}
 	sysfs_remove_file(&tlmi_priv.attribute_kset->kobj, &pending_reboot.attr);
@@ -1395,6 +1395,9 @@ static void tlmi_release_attr(void)
 	if (tlmi_priv.can_debug_cmd && debug_support)
 		sysfs_remove_file(&tlmi_priv.attribute_kset->kobj, &debug_cmd.attr);
 
+	list_for_each_entry_safe(pos, n, &tlmi_priv.attribute_kset->list, entry)
+		kobject_put(pos);
+
 	kset_unregister(tlmi_priv.attribute_kset);
 
 	/* Free up any saved signatures */
@@ -1403,19 +1406,17 @@ static void tlmi_release_attr(void)
 
 	/* Authentication structures */
 	sysfs_remove_group(&tlmi_priv.pwd_admin->kobj, &auth_attr_group);
-	kobject_put(&tlmi_priv.pwd_admin->kobj);
 	sysfs_remove_group(&tlmi_priv.pwd_power->kobj, &auth_attr_group);
-	kobject_put(&tlmi_priv.pwd_power->kobj);
 
 	if (tlmi_priv.opcode_support) {
 		sysfs_remove_group(&tlmi_priv.pwd_system->kobj, &auth_attr_group);
-		kobject_put(&tlmi_priv.pwd_system->kobj);
 		sysfs_remove_group(&tlmi_priv.pwd_hdd->kobj, &auth_attr_group);
-		kobject_put(&tlmi_priv.pwd_hdd->kobj);
 		sysfs_remove_group(&tlmi_priv.pwd_nvme->kobj, &auth_attr_group);
-		kobject_put(&tlmi_priv.pwd_nvme->kobj);
 	}
 
+	list_for_each_entry_safe(pos, n, &tlmi_priv.authentication_kset->list, entry)
+		kobject_put(pos);
+
 	kset_unregister(tlmi_priv.authentication_kset);
 }
 
@@ -1479,8 +1480,8 @@ static int tlmi_sysfs_init(void)
 
 		/* Build attribute */
 		tlmi_priv.setting[i]->kobj.kset = tlmi_priv.attribute_kset;
-		ret = kobject_add(&tlmi_priv.setting[i]->kobj, NULL,
-				  "%s", tlmi_priv.setting[i]->display_name);
+		ret = kobject_init_and_add(&tlmi_priv.setting[i]->kobj, &tlmi_attr_setting_ktype,
+					   NULL, "%s", tlmi_priv.setting[i]->display_name);
 		if (ret)
 			goto fail_create_attr;
 
@@ -1505,7 +1506,8 @@ static int tlmi_sysfs_init(void)
 
 	/* Create authentication entries */
 	tlmi_priv.pwd_admin->kobj.kset = tlmi_priv.authentication_kset;
-	ret = kobject_add(&tlmi_priv.pwd_admin->kobj, NULL, "%s", "Admin");
+	ret = kobject_init_and_add(&tlmi_priv.pwd_admin->kobj, &tlmi_pwd_setting_ktype,
+				   NULL, "%s", "Admin");
 	if (ret)
 		goto fail_create_attr;
 
@@ -1514,7 +1516,8 @@ static int tlmi_sysfs_init(void)
 		goto fail_create_attr;
 
 	tlmi_priv.pwd_power->kobj.kset = tlmi_priv.authentication_kset;
-	ret = kobject_add(&tlmi_priv.pwd_power->kobj, NULL, "%s", "Power-on");
+	ret = kobject_init_and_add(&tlmi_priv.pwd_power->kobj, &tlmi_pwd_setting_ktype,
+				   NULL, "%s", "Power-on");
 	if (ret)
 		goto fail_create_attr;
 
@@ -1524,7 +1527,8 @@ static int tlmi_sysfs_init(void)
 
 	if (tlmi_priv.opcode_support) {
 		tlmi_priv.pwd_system->kobj.kset = tlmi_priv.authentication_kset;
-		ret = kobject_add(&tlmi_priv.pwd_system->kobj, NULL, "%s", "System");
+		ret = kobject_init_and_add(&tlmi_priv.pwd_system->kobj, &tlmi_pwd_setting_ktype,
+					   NULL, "%s", "System");
 		if (ret)
 			goto fail_create_attr;
 
@@ -1533,7 +1537,8 @@ static int tlmi_sysfs_init(void)
 			goto fail_create_attr;
 
 		tlmi_priv.pwd_hdd->kobj.kset = tlmi_priv.authentication_kset;
-		ret = kobject_add(&tlmi_priv.pwd_hdd->kobj, NULL, "%s", "HDD");
+		ret = kobject_init_and_add(&tlmi_priv.pwd_hdd->kobj, &tlmi_pwd_setting_ktype,
+					   NULL, "%s", "HDD");
 		if (ret)
 			goto fail_create_attr;
 
@@ -1542,7 +1547,8 @@ static int tlmi_sysfs_init(void)
 			goto fail_create_attr;
 
 		tlmi_priv.pwd_nvme->kobj.kset = tlmi_priv.authentication_kset;
-		ret = kobject_add(&tlmi_priv.pwd_nvme->kobj, NULL, "%s", "NVMe");
+		ret = kobject_init_and_add(&tlmi_priv.pwd_nvme->kobj, &tlmi_pwd_setting_ktype,
+					   NULL, "%s", "NVMe");
 		if (ret)
 			goto fail_create_attr;
 
@@ -1579,8 +1585,6 @@ static struct tlmi_pwd_setting *tlmi_create_auth(const char *pwd_type,
 	new_pwd->maxlen = tlmi_priv.pwdcfg.core.max_length;
 	new_pwd->index = 0;
 
-	kobject_init(&new_pwd->kobj, &tlmi_pwd_setting_ktype);
-
 	return new_pwd;
 }
 
@@ -1685,7 +1689,6 @@ static int tlmi_analyze(struct wmi_device *wdev)
 		if (setting->possible_values)
 			strreplace(setting->possible_values, ',', ';');
 
-		kobject_init(&setting->kobj, &tlmi_attr_setting_ktype);
 		tlmi_priv.setting[i] = setting;
 		kfree(item);
 	}

-- 
2.50.0


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