Re: [PATCH] atm: fix atm_dev refcnt leaks in atmtcp_remove_persistent

From: David Miller
Date: Thu Jul 30 2020 - 20:36:16 EST


From: Xin Xiong <xiongx18@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2020 21:06:59 +0800

> atmtcp_remove_persistent() invokes atm_dev_lookup(), which returns a
> reference of atm_dev with increased refcount or NULL if fails.
>
> The refcount leaks issues occur in two error handling paths. If
> dev_data->persist is zero or PRIV(dev)->vcc isn't NULL, the function
> returns 0 without decreasing the refcount kept by a local variable,
> resulting in refcount leaks.
>
> Fix the issue by adding atm_dev_put() before returning 0 both when
> dev_data->persist is zero or PRIV(dev)->vcc isn't NULL.
>
> Signed-off-by: Xin Xiong <xiongx18@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Xiyu Yang <xiyuyang19@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Xin Tan <tanxin.ctf@xxxxxxxxx>

Applied, thank you.