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Unverified Commit 9177514c authored by Vladimir Zapolskiy's avatar Vladimir Zapolskiy Committed by Mark Brown
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regulator: fix memory leak on error path of regulator_register()

The change corrects registration and deregistration on error path
of a regulator, the problem was manifested by a reported memory
leak on deferred probe:

    as3722-regulator as3722-regulator: regulator 13 register failed -517

    # cat /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak
    unreferenced object 0xecc43740 (size 64):
      comm "swapper/0", pid 1, jiffies 4294937640 (age 712.880s)
      hex dump (first 32 bytes):
        72 65 67 75 6c 61 74 6f 72 2e 32 34 00 5a 5a 5a  regulator.24.ZZZ
        5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a  ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ
      backtrace:
        [<0c4c3d1c>] __kmalloc_track_caller+0x15c/0x2c0
        [<40c0ad48>] kvasprintf+0x64/0xd4
        [<109abd29>] kvasprintf_const+0x70/0x84
        [<c4215946>] kobject_set_name_vargs+0x34/0xa8
        [<62282ea2>] dev_set_name+0x40/0x64
        [<a39b6757>] regulator_register+0x3a4/0x1344
        [<16a9543f>] devm_regulator_register+0x4c/0x84
        [<51a4c6a1>] as3722_regulator_probe+0x294/0x754
        ...

The memory leak problem was introduced as a side ef another fix in
regulator_register() error path, I believe that the proper fix is
to decouple device_register() function into its two compounds and
initialize a struct device before assigning any values to its fields
and then using it before actual registration of a device happens.

This lets to call put_device() safely after initialization, and, since
now a release callback is called, kfree(rdev->constraints) shall be
removed to exclude a double free condition.

Fixes: a3cde953

 ("regulator: core: fix regulator_register() error paths to properly release rdev")
Signed-off-by: default avatarVladimir Zapolskiy <vz@mleia.com>
Cc: Wen Yang <wenyang@linux.alibaba.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200724005013.23278-1-vz@mleia.com
Signed-off-by: default avatarMark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
parent 2ca76b3e
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