Patch "module: fix memory leak on early load_module() failures" has been added to the 4.10-stable tree

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

module: fix memory leak on early load_module() failures

to the 4.10-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
module-fix-memory-leak-on-early-load_module-failures.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.10 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.

From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2017 14:06:22 -0800
Subject: module: fix memory leak on early load_module() failures

From: Luis R. Rodriguez <[email protected]>

commit a5544880aff90baf1bd4443ac7ff65182213ffcd upstream.

While looking for early possible module loading failures I was able to reproduce a memory leak possible with kmemleak. There are a few rare ways to trigger a failure:

o we've run into a failure while processing kernel parameters (parse_args() returns an error)
o mod_sysfs_setup() fails
o we're a live patch module and copy_module_elf() fails

Chances of running into this issue is really low.

kmemleak splat:

unreferenced object 0xffff9f2c4ada1b00 (size 32):
comm "kworker/u16:4", pid 82, jiffies 4294897636 (age 681.816s) hex dump (first 32 bytes):

    6d 65 6d 73 74 69 63 6b 30 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  memstick0.......
    00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
  backtrace:
    [<ffffffff8c6cfeba>] kmemleak_alloc+0x4a/0xa0
    [<ffffffff8c200046>] __kmalloc_track_caller+0x126/0x230
    [<ffffffff8c1bc581>] kstrdup+0x31/0x60
    [<ffffffff8c1bc5d4>] kstrdup_const+0x24/0x30
    [<ffffffff8c3c23aa>] kvasprintf_const+0x7a/0x90
    [<ffffffff8c3b5481>] kobject_set_name_vargs+0x21/0x90
    [<ffffffff8c4fbdd7>] dev_set_name+0x47/0x50
    [<ffffffffc07819e5>] memstick_check+0x95/0x33c [memstick]
    [<ffffffff8c09c893>] process_one_work+0x1f3/0x4b0
    [<ffffffff8c09cb98>] worker_thread+0x48/0x4e0
    [<ffffffff8c0a2b79>] kthread+0xc9/0xe0
    [<ffffffff8c6dab5f>] ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x40
    [<ffffffffffffffff>] 0xffffffffffffffff

---
 kernel/module.c |    1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

@@ -3719,6 +3719,7 @@ static int load_module(struct load_info
 	mod_sysfs_teardown(mod);
  coming_cleanup:
 	mod->state = MODULE_STATE_GOING;
+	destroy_params(mod->kp, mod->num_kp);
 	blocking_notifier_call_chain(&module_notify_list,
 				     MODULE_STATE_GOING, mod);
 	klp_module_going(mod);

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-4.10/module-fix-memory-leak-on-early-load_module-failures.patch