Shang XiaoJing 4634c97309 chardev: Fix potential memory leak when cdev_add() failed
Some init function of cdev(like comedi) will call kobject_set_name()
before cdev_add(), but won't free the cdev.kobj.name or put the ref cnt
of cdev.kobj when cdev_add() failed. As the result, cdev.kobj.name will
be leaked.

Free the name of kobject in cdev_add() fail path to prevent memleak. With
this fix, the callers don't need to care about freeing the name of
kobject if cdev_add() fails.

unreferenced object 0xffff8881000fa8c0 (size 8):
  comm "modprobe", pid 239, jiffies 4294905173 (age 51.308s)
  hex dump (first 8 bytes):
    63 6f 6d 65 64 69 00 ff                          comedi..
  backtrace:
    [<000000005f9878f7>] __kmalloc_node_track_caller+0x4c/0x1c0
    [<000000000fd70302>] kstrdup+0x3f/0x70
    [<000000009428bc33>] kstrdup_const+0x46/0x60
    [<00000000ed50d9de>] kvasprintf_const+0xdb/0xf0
    [<00000000b2766964>] kobject_set_name_vargs+0x3c/0xe0
    [<00000000f2424ef7>] kobject_set_name+0x62/0x90
    [<000000005d5a125b>] 0xffffffffa0013098
    [<00000000f331e663>] do_one_initcall+0x7a/0x380
    [<00000000aa7bac96>] do_init_module+0x5c/0x230
    [<000000005fd72335>] load_module+0x227d/0x2420
    [<00000000ad550cf1>] __do_sys_finit_module+0xd5/0x140
    [<00000000069a60c5>] do_syscall_64+0x3f/0x90
    [<00000000c5e0d521>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd

Suggested-by: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Shang XiaoJing <shangxiaojing@huawei.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221102072659.23671-1-shangxiaojing@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2022-11-10 18:38:33 +01:00
2022-09-28 09:02:20 +02:00
2022-09-28 09:02:20 +02:00
2022-10-20 21:27:21 -07:00
2022-09-28 09:02:20 +02:00
2022-10-30 15:19:28 -07:00

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.
Description
Linux kernel source tree
Readme 8.1 GiB
Languages
C 97.3%
Assembly 1%
Shell 0.6%
Python 0.4%
Makefile 0.3%
Other 0.2%