netdev - [PATCH v2] phy: Fix phy_device

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Date:	Thu, 28 Feb 2013 12:01:52 +0100
From:	Petr Malat <oss@...at.biz>
To:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	oss@...at.biz
Subject: [PATCH v2] phy: Fix phy_device_free memory leak

From: Petr Malat <oss@...at.biz>

Fix memory leak in phy_device_free() for the case when phy_device*
returned by phy_device_create() is not registered in the system.

Bug description:
phy_device_create() sets name of kobject using dev_set_name(), which 
allocates memory using kvasprintf(), but this memory isn't freed if 
the underlying device isn't registered properly, because kobject_cleanup()
is not called in that case. This can happen (and actually is happening on 
our machines) if phy_device_register(), called by mdiobus_scan(), fails. 

Patch description:
Embedded struct device is initialized in phy_device_create() and it 
counterpart phy_device_free() just drops one reference to the device,
which leads to proper deinitialization including releasing the kobject 
name memory.

Signed-off-by: Petr Malat <oss@...at.biz>
---
Updated according to according to David Miller proposal - put_device is
used to release the memory now.

Please put me on CC, I'm not signed into the mailing list.

--- linux-3.8/drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c.orig	2013-02-19 00:58:34.000000000 +0100
+++ linux-3.8/drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c	2013-02-28 11:20:51.841528627 +0100
@@ -44,13 +44,13 @@ MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");

 void phy_device_free(struct phy_device *phydev)
 {
-	kfree(phydev);
+	put_device(&phydev->dev);
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(phy_device_free);

 static void phy_device_release(struct device *dev)
 {
-	phy_device_free(to_phy_device(dev));
+	kfree(to_phy_device(dev));
 }

 static struct phy_driver genphy_driver;
@@ -201,6 +201,8 @@ struct phy_device *phy_device_create(str
 	   there's no driver _already_ loaded. */
 	request_module(MDIO_MODULE_PREFIX MDIO_ID_FMT, MDIO_ID_ARGS(phy_id));

+	device_initialize(&dev->dev);
+
 	return dev;
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(phy_device_create);
@@ -363,9 +365,9 @@ int phy_device_register(struct phy_devic
 	/* Run all of the fixups for this PHY */
 	phy_scan_fixups(phydev);

-	err = device_register(&phydev->dev);
+	err = device_add(&phydev->dev);
 	if (err) {
-		pr_err("phy %d failed to register\n", phydev->addr);
+		pr_err("PHY %d failed to add\n", phydev->addr);
 		goto out;
 	}

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