[PATCH] amba: fix refcount underflow if amba_device_add() fails
Kefeng Wang
wangkefeng.wang at huawei.com
Mon May 23 19:51:39 PDT 2022
"ARM: 9192/1: amba: fix memory leak in amba_device_try_add()" leads
to a refcount underflow if amba_device_add() fails, which called by
of_amba_device_create(), the of_amba_device_create() already exists
the error handling, so amba_put_device() only need to be added into
amba_deferred_retry().
Reported-by: Guenter Roeck <linux at roeck-us.net>
Signed-off-by: Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang at huawei.com>
---
drivers/amba/bus.c | 8 ++------
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/amba/bus.c b/drivers/amba/bus.c
index 0e3ed5eb367b..0cb20324da16 100644
--- a/drivers/amba/bus.c
+++ b/drivers/amba/bus.c
@@ -493,13 +493,8 @@ static int amba_device_try_add(struct amba_device *dev, struct resource *parent)
goto skip_probe;
ret = amba_read_periphid(dev);
- if (ret) {
- if (ret != -EPROBE_DEFER) {
- amba_device_put(dev);
- goto err_out;
- }
+ if (ret)
goto err_release;
- }
skip_probe:
ret = device_add(&dev->dev);
@@ -546,6 +541,7 @@ static int amba_deferred_retry(void)
continue;
list_del_init(&ddev->node);
+ amba_device_put(ddev->dev);
kfree(ddev);
}
--
2.35.3
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