Re: [PATCH v4 0/2] platform/x86: Fix reference leaks

From: Hans de Goede
Date: Wed Oct 04 2023 - 05:56:32 EST


Hi,

On 9/25/23 16:28, Armin Wolf wrote:
> If a duplicate attribute is found using kset_find_obj(), a reference
> to that attribute is returned which needs to be disposed accordingly
> using kobject_put(). This issue likely first appeared inside the
> dell-wmi-sysman driver, see
> commit 7295a996fdab ("platform/x86: dell-sysman: Fix reference leak").
> However, it also seems that the bug was copied from this driver into
> the think-lmi and hp-bioscfg drivers. Maybe a more abstract
> fw_attr_class could prevent such issues in the future by abstracting
> away the kobject handling?
>
> Armin Wolf (2):
> platform/x86: think-lmi: Fix reference leak
> platform/x86: hp-bioscfg: Fix reference leak

Thank you for your patch/series, I've applied this patch
(series) to the pdx86 fixes branch:
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pdx86/platform-drivers-x86.git/log/?h=fixes

Note it will show up in the pdx86 fixes branch once I've pushed
my local branch there, which might take a while.

I will include this patch in my next fixes pull-req to Linus
for the current kernel development cycle.

Regards,

Hans




> drivers/platform/x86/hp/hp-bioscfg/bioscfg.c | 14 ++++++++----
> drivers/platform/x86/think-lmi.c | 24 ++++++++++++++++----
> 2 files changed, 30 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
>
> --
> 2.39.2
>