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Message-ID: <CAHNKnsRrrHV7hdie==inxuPat5=K9-9EcSNwsrq2QSRfvZVs1g@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Tue, 18 Oct 2022 17:50:22 +0400
From:   Sergey Ryazanov <ryazanov.s.a@...il.com>
To:     Yang Yingliang <yangyingliang@...wei.com>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, loic.poulain@...aro.org,
        johannes@...solutions.net, davem@...emloft.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] wwan_hwsim: fix possible memory leak in wwan_hwsim_dev_new()

Hello Yang,

On Tue, Oct 18, 2022 at 5:17 PM Yang Yingliang <yangyingliang@...wei.com> wrote:
> Inject fault while probing module, if device_register() fails,
> but the refcount of kobject is not decreased to 0, the name
> allocated in dev_set_name() is leaked. Fix this by calling
> put_device(), so that name can be freed in callback function
> kobject_cleanup().
>
> unreferenced object 0xffff88810152ad20 (size 8):
>   comm "modprobe", pid 252, jiffies 4294849206 (age 22.713s)
>   hex dump (first 8 bytes):
>     68 77 73 69 6d 30 00 ff                          hwsim0..
>   backtrace:
>     [<000000009c3504ed>] __kmalloc_node_track_caller+0x44/0x1b0
>     [<00000000c0228a5e>] kvasprintf+0xb5/0x140
>     [<00000000cff8c21f>] kvasprintf_const+0x55/0x180
>     [<0000000055a1e073>] kobject_set_name_vargs+0x56/0x150
>     [<000000000a80b139>] dev_set_name+0xab/0xe0
>
> Fixes: f36a111a74e7 ("wwan_hwsim: WWAN device simulator")
> Signed-off-by: Yang Yingliang <yangyingliang@...wei.com>

Nice catch!

Acked-by: Sergey Ryazanov <ryazanov.s.a@...il.com>

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