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[v2,0/3] pinctrl: fix possible memory leak when pinctrl_enable() fails

Message ID 20240606023704.3931561-1-yangyingliang@huawei.com
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Series pinctrl: fix possible memory leak when pinctrl_enable() fails | expand

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Yang Yingliang June 6, 2024, 2:37 a.m. UTC
In devm_pinctrl_register(), if pinctrl_enable() fails in pinctrl_register(),
the "pctldev" has not been added to dev resources, so devm_pinctrl_dev_release()
can not be called, it leads memory leak.

And some driver calls pinctrl_register_and_init() which is not devm_ managed,
it also leads memory leak if pinctrl_enable() fails.

To fix this, introduce pinctrl_uninit_controller(), call it in the error path to
free memory and replace pinctrl_register_and_init with devm_pinctrl_register_and_init.

v1 -> v2:
  Check pinctrl_enable() return value in pcs_probe() in patch #2

Yang Yingliang (3):
  pinctrl: core: fix possible memory leak when pinctrl_enable() fails
  pinctrl: single: fix possible memory leak when pinctrl_enable() fails
  pinctrl: ti: ti-iodelay: fix possible memory leak when
    pinctrl_enable() fails

 drivers/pinctrl/core.c                  | 12 +++++++++++-
 drivers/pinctrl/pinctrl-single.c        |  7 ++++---
 drivers/pinctrl/ti/pinctrl-ti-iodelay.c | 11 ++++++-----
 3 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

Comments

Dan Carpenter June 6, 2024, 8:44 a.m. UTC | #1
On Thu, Jun 06, 2024 at 10:37:01AM +0800, Yang Yingliang wrote:
> In devm_pinctrl_register(), if pinctrl_enable() fails in pinctrl_register(),
> the "pctldev" has not been added to dev resources, so devm_pinctrl_dev_release()
> can not be called, it leads memory leak.
> 
> And some driver calls pinctrl_register_and_init() which is not devm_ managed,
> it also leads memory leak if pinctrl_enable() fails.
> 
> To fix this, introduce pinctrl_uninit_controller(), call it in the error path to
> free memory and replace pinctrl_register_and_init with devm_pinctrl_register_and_init.
> 
> v1 -> v2:
>   Check pinctrl_enable() return value in pcs_probe() in patch #2
> 
> Yang Yingliang (3):
>   pinctrl: core: fix possible memory leak when pinctrl_enable() fails
>   pinctrl: single: fix possible memory leak when pinctrl_enable() fails
>   pinctrl: ti: ti-iodelay: fix possible memory leak when
>     pinctrl_enable() fails

Thanks so much!

Reviewed-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@linaro.org>

regards,
dan carpenter
Linus Walleij June 17, 2024, 8:34 a.m. UTC | #2
On Thu, Jun 6, 2024 at 4:39 AM Yang Yingliang <yangyingliang@huawei.com> wrote:

> In devm_pinctrl_register(), if pinctrl_enable() fails in pinctrl_register(),
> the "pctldev" has not been added to dev resources, so devm_pinctrl_dev_release()
> can not be called, it leads memory leak.
>
> And some driver calls pinctrl_register_and_init() which is not devm_ managed,
> it also leads memory leak if pinctrl_enable() fails.
>
> To fix this, introduce pinctrl_uninit_controller(), call it in the error path to
> free memory and replace pinctrl_register_and_init with devm_pinctrl_register_and_init.
>
> v1 -> v2:
>   Check pinctrl_enable() return value in pcs_probe() in patch #2

Patches applied as nonurgent fixes.

Thanks Yang!

Yours,
Linus Walleij