[PATCH] regmap: fix potential memory leak of regmap_bus

From: Abdun Nihaal
Date: Thu Jun 26 2025 - 13:28:50 EST


When __regmap_init() is called from __regmap_init_i2c() and
__regmap_init_spi() (and their devm versions), the bus argument
obtained from regmap_get_i2c_bus() and regmap_get_spi_bus(), may be
allocated using kmemdup() to support quirks. In those cases, the
bus->free_on_exit field is set to true.

However, inside __regmap_init(), buf is not freed on any error path.
This could lead to a memory leak of regmap_bus when __regmap_init()
fails. Fix that by freeing bus on error path when free_on_exit is set.

Fixes: ea030ca68819 ("regmap-i2c: Set regmap max raw r/w from quirks")
Signed-off-by: Abdun Nihaal <abdun.nihaal@xxxxxxxxx>
---
This patch is compile tested only. Not tested on real hardware.
Bug was found using our prototype static analysis tool.

drivers/base/regmap/regmap.c | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/base/regmap/regmap.c b/drivers/base/regmap/regmap.c
index f2843f814675..1f3f782a04ba 100644
--- a/drivers/base/regmap/regmap.c
+++ b/drivers/base/regmap/regmap.c
@@ -1173,6 +1173,8 @@ struct regmap *__regmap_init(struct device *dev,
err_map:
kfree(map);
err:
+ if (bus && bus->free_on_exit)
+ kfree(bus);
return ERR_PTR(ret);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(__regmap_init);
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2.43.0