Re: [PATCH] tty: don't leak cdev in tty_cdev_add()

From: Richard Watts
Date: Tue Sep 08 2015 - 06:40:01 EST




On 07/09/15 14:08, Leon Yu wrote:
Commit a3a10ce3429e ("Avoid usb reset crashes by making tty_io cdevs truly
dynamic") which mixes using cdev_alloc() and cdev_init() is problematic.
Subsequent call to cdev_init() after cdev_alloc() sets kobj release method
from cdev_dynamic_release() to cdev_default_release() and thus makes it
impossible to free allocated cdev.

This patch also consolidates error path of cdev_add() as cdev can also leak
here if things went wrong.

Signed-off-by: Leon Yu <chianglungyu@xxxxxxxxx>
Fixes: a3a10ce3429e ("Avoid usb reset crashes by making tty_io cdevs truly dynamic")

Oops! Apologies. Looks good to me - thank you.

Acked-by: Richard Watts <rrw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>



Richard.
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