[ Upstream commit 585fb3d93d32dbe89e718b85009f9c322cc554cd ] In edac_create_csrow_object(), the reference to the object is not released when adding the device to the device hierarchy fails (device_add()). This may result in a memory leak.
Signed-off-by: Pan Bian <bianpan2...@163.com> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <b...@suse.de> Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gre...@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: James Morse <james.mo...@arm.com> Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mche...@kernel.org> Cc: linux-edac <linux-e...@vger.kernel.org> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1555554438-103953-1-git-send-email-bianpan2...@163.com Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sas...@kernel.org> --- drivers/edac/edac_mc_sysfs.c | 8 +++++++- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/edac/edac_mc_sysfs.c b/drivers/edac/edac_mc_sysfs.c index bf9273437e3f..7c01e1cc030c 100644 --- a/drivers/edac/edac_mc_sysfs.c +++ b/drivers/edac/edac_mc_sysfs.c @@ -404,6 +404,8 @@ static inline int nr_pages_per_csrow(struct csrow_info *csrow) static int edac_create_csrow_object(struct mem_ctl_info *mci, struct csrow_info *csrow, int index) { + int err; + csrow->dev.type = &csrow_attr_type; csrow->dev.groups = csrow_dev_groups; device_initialize(&csrow->dev); @@ -415,7 +417,11 @@ static int edac_create_csrow_object(struct mem_ctl_info *mci, edac_dbg(0, "creating (virtual) csrow node %s\n", dev_name(&csrow->dev)); - return device_add(&csrow->dev); + err = device_add(&csrow->dev); + if (err) + put_device(&csrow->dev); + + return err; } /* Create a CSROW object under specifed edac_mc_device */ -- 2.20.1
