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author | Cristian Marussi <cristian.marussi@arm.com> | 2025-03-06 18:54:47 +0000 |
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committer | Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@arm.com> | 2025-04-08 10:31:59 +0100 |
commit | 9ca67840c0ddf3f39407339624cef824a4f27599 (patch) | |
tree | ee4eeaa0bdb7091b05aba9cb98e7ecf05d9374e9 /scripts/extract-fwblobs | |
parent | 0af2f6be1b4281385b618cb86ad946eded089ac8 (diff) |
firmware: arm_scmi: Balance device refcount when destroying devices
Using device_find_child() to lookup the proper SCMI device to destroy
causes an unbalance in device refcount, since device_find_child() calls an
implicit get_device(): this, in turns, inhibits the call of the provided
release methods upon devices destruction.
As a consequence, one of the structures that is not freed properly upon
destruction is the internal struct device_private dev->p populated by the
drivers subsystem core.
KMemleak detects this situation since loading/unloding some SCMI driver
causes related devices to be created/destroyed without calling any
device_release method.
unreferenced object 0xffff00000f583800 (size 512):
comm "insmod", pid 227, jiffies 4294912190
hex dump (first 32 bytes):
00 00 00 00 ad 4e ad de ff ff ff ff 00 00 00 00 .....N..........
ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff 60 36 1d 8a 00 80 ff ff ........`6......
backtrace (crc 114e2eed):
kmemleak_alloc+0xbc/0xd8
__kmalloc_cache_noprof+0x2dc/0x398
device_add+0x954/0x12d0
device_register+0x28/0x40
__scmi_device_create.part.0+0x1bc/0x380
scmi_device_create+0x2d0/0x390
scmi_create_protocol_devices+0x74/0xf8
scmi_device_request_notifier+0x1f8/0x2a8
notifier_call_chain+0x110/0x3b0
blocking_notifier_call_chain+0x70/0xb0
scmi_driver_register+0x350/0x7f0
0xffff80000a3b3038
do_one_initcall+0x12c/0x730
do_init_module+0x1dc/0x640
load_module+0x4b20/0x5b70
init_module_from_file+0xec/0x158
$ ./scripts/faddr2line ./vmlinux device_add+0x954/0x12d0
device_add+0x954/0x12d0:
kmalloc_noprof at include/linux/slab.h:901
(inlined by) kzalloc_noprof at include/linux/slab.h:1037
(inlined by) device_private_init at drivers/base/core.c:3510
(inlined by) device_add at drivers/base/core.c:3561
Balance device refcount by issuing a put_device() on devices found via
device_find_child().
Reported-by: Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@google.com>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-arm-kernel/Z8nK3uFkspy61yjP@arm.com/T/#mc1f73a0ea5e41014fa145147b7b839fc988ada8f
CC: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@arm.com>
CC: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Fixes: d4f9dddd21f3 ("firmware: arm_scmi: Add dynamic scmi devices creation")
Signed-off-by: Cristian Marussi <cristian.marussi@arm.com>
Tested-by: Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@google.com>
Message-Id: <20250306185447.2039336-1-cristian.marussi@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@arm.com>
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