Re: [PATCH] nvmem: core: Fix memleak in nvmem_register()

[Greg KH]

On Fri, Sep 16, 2022 at 01:04:02PM +0100, Srinivas Kandagatla wrote:
> From: Gaosheng Cui <cuigaosheng1@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> dev_set_name will alloc memory for nvmem->dev.kobj.name in
> nvmem_register, when nvmem_validate_keepouts failed, nvmem's
> memory will be freed and return, but nobody will free memory
> for nvmem->dev.kobj.name, there will be memleak, so moving
> nvmem_validate_keepouts() after device_register() and let
> the device core deal with cleaning name in error cases.
> 
> Fixes: de0534df9347 ("nvmem: core: fix error handling while validating keepout regions")
> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Signed-off-by: Gaosheng Cui <cuigaosheng1@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Srinivas Kandagatla <srinivas.kandagatla@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> Hi Greg,
> 
> Here is a fix in nvmem core which can possibly go in next rc.
> Could you please pick this up.

I missed this for 6.0-final, but as it's only on a not-ever-hit error
path, it can wait for 6.1-rc1.

thanks,

greg k-h