Re: [PATCH] iio: buffer: Fix memory leak in __iio_buffer_alloc_sysfs_and_mask()

[Jonathan Cameron]

On Wed, 13 Oct 2021 17:43:43 +0800
Yang Yingliang <yangyingliang@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> When iio_buffer_wrap_attr() returns NULL or buffer->buffer_group.name alloc
> fails, the 'attr' which is allocated in __iio_buffer_alloc_sysfs_and_mask()
> is not freed, and cause memory leak.
> 
> unreferenced object 0xffff888014882a00 (size 64):
>   comm "i2c-adjd_s311-8", pid 424, jiffies 4294907737 (age 44.396s)
>   hex dump (first 32 bytes):
>     00 0f 8a 15 80 88 ff ff 00 0e 8a 15 80 88 ff ff  ................
>     80 04 8a 15 80 88 ff ff 80 05 8a 15 80 88 ff ff  ................
>   backtrace:
>     [<0000000021752e67>] __kmalloc+0x1af/0x3c0
>     [<0000000043e8305c>] iio_buffers_alloc_sysfs_and_mask+0xe73/0x1570 [industrialio]
>     [<00000000b7aa5a17>] __iio_device_register+0x483/0x1a30 [industrialio]
>     [<000000003fa0fb2f>] __devm_iio_device_register+0x23/0x90 [industrialio]
>     [<000000003ab040cf>] adjd_s311_probe+0x19c/0x200 [adjd_s311]
>     [<0000000080458969>] i2c_device_probe+0xa31/0xbe0
>     [<00000000e20678ad>] really_probe+0x299/0xc30
>     [<000000006bea9b27>] __driver_probe_device+0x357/0x500
>     [<00000000e1df10d4>] driver_probe_device+0x4e/0x140
>     [<0000000003661beb>] __device_attach_driver+0x257/0x340
>     [<000000005bb4aa26>] bus_for_each_drv+0x166/0x1e0
>     [<00000000272c5236>] __device_attach+0x272/0x420
>     [<00000000d52a96ae>] bus_probe_device+0x1eb/0x2a0
>     [<00000000129f7737>] device_add+0xbf0/0x1f90
>     [<000000005eed4e52>] i2c_new_client_device+0x622/0xb20
>     [<00000000b85a9c43>] new_device_store+0x1fa/0x420
> 
> This patch fix to free it before the error return.
> 
> Reported-by: Hulk Robot <hulkci@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Fixes: 15097c7a1adc ("iio: buffer: wrap all buffer attributes into iio_dev_attr")
> Fixes: d9a625744ed0 ("iio: core: merge buffer/ & scan_elements/ attributes")
> Signed-off-by: Yang Yingliang <yangyingliang@xxxxxxxxxx>

Good find.  This function is clearly trying to do too many things and hence has become
rather error prone.  Still fixing that is a job for another day.

Alex, if you have a chance to take a look at this as well it would be great.
In the meantime I've queued it up in the fixes-togreg branch of iio.git

Thanks,

Jonathan

> ---
>  drivers/iio/industrialio-buffer.c | 5 ++---
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/iio/industrialio-buffer.c b/drivers/iio/industrialio-buffer.c
> index 547a92d469ae..ae0912a14578 100644
> --- a/drivers/iio/industrialio-buffer.c
> +++ b/drivers/iio/industrialio-buffer.c
> @@ -1536,6 +1536,7 @@ static int __iio_buffer_alloc_sysfs_and_mask(struct iio_buffer *buffer,
>  		       sizeof(struct attribute *) * buffer_attrcount);
>  
>  	buffer_attrcount += ARRAY_SIZE(iio_buffer_attrs);
> +	buffer->buffer_group.attrs = attr;
>  
>  	for (i = 0; i < buffer_attrcount; i++) {
>  		struct attribute *wrapped;
> @@ -1543,7 +1544,7 @@ static int __iio_buffer_alloc_sysfs_and_mask(struct iio_buffer *buffer,
>  		wrapped = iio_buffer_wrap_attr(buffer, attr[i]);
>  		if (!wrapped) {
>  			ret = -ENOMEM;
> -			goto error_free_scan_mask;
> +			goto error_free_buffer_attrs;
>  		}
>  		attr[i] = wrapped;
>  	}
> @@ -1558,8 +1559,6 @@ static int __iio_buffer_alloc_sysfs_and_mask(struct iio_buffer *buffer,
>  		goto error_free_buffer_attrs;
>  	}
>  
> -	buffer->buffer_group.attrs = attr;
> -
>  	ret = iio_device_register_sysfs_group(indio_dev, &buffer->buffer_group);
>  	if (ret)
>  		goto error_free_buffer_attr_group_name;