Re: [PATCH] driver core: fix device_create() error path

[David Herrmann]

Hi Greg

On Sun, Dec 8, 2013 at 4:27 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman
<gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 08, 2013 at 03:42:33PM +0100, David Herrmann wrote:
>> Hi Greg
>>
>> Ping?
>
> It's in my "todo" queue, don't worry, it's not lost.
>
>> On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 8:15 PM, David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > We call put_device() in the error path, which is fine for dev==NULL.
>> > However, in case kobject_set_name_vargs() fails, we have dev!=NULL but
>> > device_initialized() wasn't called, yet.
>
> If kobject_set_name_vargs() fails, we have bigger problems than this :)
>
> And I think it's safe for a put_device() on a device that wasn't
> initialized(), we just get a warning message if that happens.

I think it results in a call to kref_sub(), which will call
atomic_sub_and_test() which will fail as the new value is -1. So the
memory isn't freed.

I was just going through my pending patches to make sure they're not
forgotten. Nothing important, but I saw you already applied it.

Thanks
David

> Not to say that your patch is wrong, I'll look at it soon, but things
> should still recover ok from what I can tell.
>
> Oh, and there's the much-complained about memory leak in
> kobject_set_name_vargs() if something goes wrong there as well, I have a
> patch sitting in my queue to hopefully fix that up.
>
> thanks,
>
> greg k-h
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