[PATCH] mmc: meson-gx: fix return value check of mmc_add_host()
Ulf Hansson
ulf.hansson at linaro.org
Wed Nov 9 04:34:23 PST 2022
On Tue, 8 Nov 2022 at 13:35, Yang Yingliang <yangyingliang at huawei.com> wrote:
>
> mmc_add_host() may return error, if we ignore its return value,
> it will lead two issues:
> 1. The memory that allocated in mmc_alloc_host() is leaked.
> 2. In the remove() path, mmc_remove_host() will be called to
> delete device, but it's not added yet, it will lead a kernel
> crash because of null-ptr-deref in device_del().
>
> Fix this by checking the return value and goto error path which
> will call mmc_free_host().
>
> Fixes: 51c5d8447bd7 ("MMC: meson: initial support for GX platforms")
> Signed-off-by: Yang Yingliang <yangyingliang at huawei.com>
Applied for next, thanks!
Kind regards
Uffe
> ---
> drivers/mmc/host/meson-gx-mmc.c | 4 +++-
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/mmc/host/meson-gx-mmc.c b/drivers/mmc/host/meson-gx-mmc.c
> index df05e60bed9a..6e5ea0213b47 100644
> --- a/drivers/mmc/host/meson-gx-mmc.c
> +++ b/drivers/mmc/host/meson-gx-mmc.c
> @@ -1335,7 +1335,9 @@ static int meson_mmc_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
> }
>
> mmc->ops = &meson_mmc_ops;
> - mmc_add_host(mmc);
> + ret = mmc_add_host(mmc);
> + if (ret)
> + goto err_free_irq;
>
> return 0;
>
> --
> 2.25.1
>
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