[PATCH v7 01/22] RISC-V: perf: fix resource cleanup on driver probe failure

Atish Patra atish.patra at linux.dev
Mon Jun 22 01:04:13 PDT 2026


From: Atish Patra <atishp at meta.com>

Sashiko pointed out various UAF and memory leak issues around
pmu_sbi_device_probe() error paths.

If the probe fails, here are list of cleanups needed.
a. Already registered pmu must be freed
b. per cpu IRQ must be released
c. pmu_ctr_list data structure must be freed
d. cpu hotplug state must be cleaned up only if added.

Fix the resource cleanup by reorganizing the code around probe failure.

Reported-by: Sashiko AI <sashiko-bot at kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Atish Patra <atishp at meta.com>
---
 drivers/perf/riscv_pmu_sbi.c | 17 ++++++++++++++---
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/perf/riscv_pmu_sbi.c b/drivers/perf/riscv_pmu_sbi.c
index 385af5e6e6d0..8753007cc57e 100644
--- a/drivers/perf/riscv_pmu_sbi.c
+++ b/drivers/perf/riscv_pmu_sbi.c
@@ -1302,7 +1302,8 @@ static void riscv_pmu_destroy(struct riscv_pmu *pmu)
 		}
 	}
 	riscv_pm_pmu_unregister(pmu);
-	cpuhp_state_remove_instance(CPUHP_AP_PERF_RISCV_STARTING, &pmu->node);
+	if (!hlist_unhashed(&pmu->node))
+		cpuhp_state_remove_instance(CPUHP_AP_PERF_RISCV_STARTING, &pmu->node);
 }
 
 static void pmu_sbi_event_init(struct perf_event *event)
@@ -1424,6 +1425,7 @@ static int pmu_sbi_device_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
 	struct riscv_pmu *pmu = NULL;
 	int ret = -ENODEV;
 	int num_counters;
+	bool irq_requested = false;
 
 	pr_info("SBI PMU extension is available\n");
 	pmu = riscv_pmu_alloc();
@@ -1452,6 +1454,7 @@ static int pmu_sbi_device_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
 		pmu->pmu.capabilities |= PERF_PMU_CAP_NO_INTERRUPT;
 		pmu->pmu.capabilities |= PERF_PMU_CAP_NO_EXCLUDE;
 	}
+	irq_requested = (ret == 0);
 
 	pmu->pmu.attr_groups = riscv_pmu_attr_groups;
 	pmu->pmu.parent = &pdev->dev;
@@ -1470,11 +1473,11 @@ static int pmu_sbi_device_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
 
 	ret = riscv_pm_pmu_register(pmu);
 	if (ret)
-		goto out_unregister;
+		goto out_destroy;
 
 	ret = perf_pmu_register(&pmu->pmu, "cpu", PERF_TYPE_RAW);
 	if (ret)
-		goto out_unregister;
+		goto out_destroy;
 
 	/* SBI PMU Snapsphot is only available in SBI v2.0 */
 	if (sbi_v2_available) {
@@ -1515,9 +1518,17 @@ static int pmu_sbi_device_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
 	return 0;
 
 out_unregister:
+	perf_pmu_unregister(&pmu->pmu);
+
+out_destroy:
 	riscv_pmu_destroy(pmu);
+	if (irq_requested)
+		free_percpu_irq(riscv_pmu_irq, pmu->hw_events);
 
 out_free:
+	free_percpu(pmu->hw_events);
+	kfree(pmu_ctr_list);
+	pmu_ctr_list = NULL;
 	kfree(pmu);
 	return ret;
 }

-- 
2.53.0-Meta




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