patch "iio: trigger: sysfs: fix possible memory leak in" added to char-misc-linus

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

iio: trigger: sysfs: fix possible memory leak in

to my char-misc git tree which can be found at
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc.git
in the char-misc-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 efa17e90e1711bdb084e3954fa44afb6647331c0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Yang Yingliang <[email protected]>
Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2022 15:42:12 +0800
Subject: iio: trigger: sysfs: fix possible memory leak in
iio_sysfs_trig_init()

dev_set_name() allocates memory for name, it need be freed when device_add() fails, call put_device() to give up the reference that hold in device_initialize(), so that it can be freed in kobject_cleanup() when the refcount hit to 0.

Fault injection test can trigger this:

unreferenced object 0xffff8e8340a7b4c0 (size 32):
comm "modprobe", pid 243, jiffies 4294678145 (age 48.845s) hex dump (first 32 bytes):

    69 69 6f 5f 73 79 73 66 73 5f 74 72 69 67 67 65  iio_sysfs_trigge
    72 00 a7 40 83 8e ff ff 00 86 13 c4 f6 ee ff ff  r..@............
  backtrace:
    [<0000000074999de8>] __kmem_cache_alloc_node+0x1e9/0x360
    [<00000000497fd30b>] __kmalloc_node_track_caller+0x44/0x1a0
    [<000000003636c520>] kstrdup+0x2d/0x60
    [<0000000032f84da2>] kobject_set_name_vargs+0x1e/0x90
    [<0000000092efe493>] dev_set_name+0x4e/0x70

---
 drivers/iio/trigger/iio-trig-sysfs.c | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

index d6c5e9644738..6b05eed41612 100644
@@ -203,9 +203,13 @@ static int iio_sysfs_trigger_remove(int id)
 
 static int __init iio_sysfs_trig_init(void)
 {
+	int ret;
 	device_initialize(&iio_sysfs_trig_dev);
 	dev_set_name(&iio_sysfs_trig_dev, "iio_sysfs_trigger");
-	return device_add(&iio_sysfs_trig_dev);
+	ret = device_add(&iio_sysfs_trig_dev);
+	if (ret)
+		put_device(&iio_sysfs_trig_dev);
+	return ret;
 }
 module_init(iio_sysfs_trig_init);
 

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