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phy: mdio: fix memory leak
authorPavel Skripkin <paskripkin@gmail.com>
Thu, 30 Sep 2021 17:50:28 +0000 (20:50 +0300)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Wed, 13 Oct 2021 08:08:18 +0000 (10:08 +0200)
commit2fd6dc445fc06519aa5d41137590640c730ab8b4
treeaac57bc65b16903d3e1820ca64fbf9f1e29a5201
parent2b94a44b59c80f7835fbe3e854dc128dec8b3ad2
phy: mdio: fix memory leak

[ Upstream commit ca6e11c337daf7925ff8a2aac8e84490a8691905 ]

Syzbot reported memory leak in MDIO bus interface, the problem was in
wrong state logic.

MDIOBUS_ALLOCATED indicates 2 states:
1. Bus is only allocated
2. Bus allocated and __mdiobus_register() fails, but
   device_register() was called

In case of device_register() has been called we should call put_device()
to correctly free the memory allocated for this device, but mdiobus_free()
calls just kfree(dev) in case of MDIOBUS_ALLOCATED state

To avoid this behaviour we need to set bus->state to MDIOBUS_UNREGISTERED
_before_ calling device_register(), because put_device() should be
called even in case of device_register() failure.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/YVMRWNDZDUOvQjHL@shell.armlinux.org.uk/
Fixes: f20c0459fac0 ("phylib: give mdio buses a device tree presence")
Reported-and-tested-by: syzbot+398e7dc692ddbbb4cfec@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Reviewed-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Pavel Skripkin <paskripkin@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/eceae1429fbf8fa5c73dd2a0d39d525aa905074d.1633024062.git.paskripkin@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
drivers/net/phy/mdio_bus.c