Some init function of cdev(like comedi) will call kobject_set_name()
before cdev_add(), but won't free the cdev.kobj.name or put the ref cnt
of cdev.kobj when cdev_add() failed. As the result, cdev.kobj.name will
be leaked.
Free the name of kobject in cdev_add() fail path to prevent memleak. With
this fix, the callers don't need to care about freeing the name of
kobject if cdev_add() fails.
unreferenced object 0xffff8881000fa8c0 (size 8):
comm "modprobe", pid 239, jiffies 4294905173 (age 51.308s)
hex dump (first 8 bytes):
63 6f 6d 65 64 69 00 ff comedi..
backtrace:
[<000000005f9878f7>] __kmalloc_node_track_caller+0x4c/0x1c0
[<000000000fd70302>] kstrdup+0x3f/0x70
[<000000009428bc33>] kstrdup_const+0x46/0x60
[<00000000ed50d9de>] kvasprintf_const+0xdb/0xf0
[<00000000b2766964>] kobject_set_name_vargs+0x3c/0xe0
[<00000000f2424ef7>] kobject_set_name+0x62/0x90
[<000000005d5a125b>] 0xffffffffa0013098
[<00000000f331e663>] do_one_initcall+0x7a/0x380
[<00000000aa7bac96>] do_init_module+0x5c/0x230
[<000000005fd72335>] load_module+0x227d/0x2420
[<00000000ad550cf1>] __do_sys_finit_module+0xd5/0x140
[<00000000069a60c5>] do_syscall_64+0x3f/0x90
[<00000000c5e0d521>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd
Suggested-by: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Shang XiaoJing <shangxiaojing@huawei.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221102072659.23671-1-shangxiaojing@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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