patch "driver core: auxiliary bus: Fix memory leak when driver_register()" added to driver-core-linus

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

driver core: auxiliary bus: Fix memory leak when driver_register()

to my driver-core git tree which can be found at
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core.git
in the driver-core-linus branch.

The patch will show up in the next release of the linux-next tree (usually sometime within the next 24 hours during the week.)

The patch will hopefully also be merged in Linus's tree for the next -rc kernel release.

If you have any questions about this process, please let me know.

From 4afa0c22eed33cfe0c590742387f0d16f32412f3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Peter Ujfalusi <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2021 12:34:38 +0300
Subject: driver core: auxiliary bus: Fix memory leak when driver_register()
fail

If driver_register() returns with error we need to free the memory allocated for auxdrv->driver.name before returning from __auxiliary_driver_register()

---
 drivers/base/auxiliary.c | 8 +++++++-
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

index adc199dfba3c..6a30264ab2ba 100644
@@ -231,6 +231,8 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(auxiliary_find_device);
 int __auxiliary_driver_register(struct auxiliary_driver *auxdrv,
 				struct module *owner, const char *modname)
 {
+	int ret;
+
 	if (WARN_ON(!auxdrv->probe) || WARN_ON(!auxdrv->id_table))
 		return -EINVAL;
 

@@ -246,7 +248,11 @@ int __auxiliary_driver_register(struct auxiliary_driver *auxdrv,
 	auxdrv->driver.bus = &auxiliary_bus_type;
 	auxdrv->driver.mod_name = modname;
 
-	return driver_register(&auxdrv->driver);
+	ret = driver_register(&auxdrv->driver);
+	if (ret)
+		kfree(auxdrv->driver.name);
+
+	return ret;
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(__auxiliary_driver_register);
 

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