Re: [RFC PATCH] use dev_set_name(,NULL) to prevent leaking

From: Yinghai Lu
Date: Tue Apr 28 2009 - 11:36:31 EST


Yinghai Lu wrote:
> Kay Sievers wrote:
>> On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 09:42, Yinghai Lu <yinghai@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> those about 1/3 dev_set_name() etc.
>> put_device()?
>>
>> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=blob;f=drivers/base/core.c;h=4aa527b8a91381289eb175b33f46e3e418d10374;hb=HEAD#l848
>>
> ok, normal release path seems right, put_device will free the name.
>
> how about other fail path, that there is not put_device involved?
>

looks like need to follow this pattern

static int
sa1111_init_one_child(struct sa1111 *sachip, struct resource *parent,
struct sa1111_dev_info *info)
{
struct sa1111_dev *dev;
int ret;

dev = kzalloc(sizeof(struct sa1111_dev), GFP_KERNEL);
if (!dev) {
ret = -ENOMEM;
goto out;
}

dev_set_name(&dev->dev, "%4.4lx", info->offset);
dev->devid = info->devid;
dev->dev.parent = sachip->dev;
dev->dev.bus = &sa1111_bus_type;
dev->dev.release = sa1111_dev_release;
dev->dev.coherent_dma_mask = sachip->dev->coherent_dma_mask;
dev->res.start = sachip->phys + info->offset;
dev->res.end = dev->res.start + 511;
dev->res.name = dev_name(&dev->dev);
dev->res.flags = IORESOURCE_MEM;
dev->mapbase = sachip->base + info->offset;
dev->skpcr_mask = info->skpcr_mask;
memmove(dev->irq, info->irq, sizeof(dev->irq));

ret = request_resource(parent, &dev->res);
if (ret) {
printk("SA1111: failed to allocate resource for %s\n",
dev->res.name);
dev_set_name(&dev->dev, NULL); ============> clear the name
kfree(dev);
goto out;
}


ret = device_register(&dev->dev);
if (ret) {
release_resource(&dev->res);
put_device(&dev->dev); ==================> put the device...
kfree(dev);
goto out;
}


YH

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