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hwmon: (fschmd) Fix a memleak on multiple opens of /dev/watchdog 

When /dev/watchdog gets opened a second time we return -EBUSY, but
we already have got a kref then, so we end up leaking our data struct.

Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
hifive-unleashed-5.1
Hans de Goede 2010-01-25 15:00:50 +01:00 committed by Jean Delvare
parent 5542482b9c
commit c453615f77
1 changed files with 5 additions and 2 deletions
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drivers/hwmon/fschmd.c
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@ -768,6 +768,7 @@ leave:
static int watchdog_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *filp)
{
struct fschmd_data *pos, *data = NULL;
int watchdog_is_open;
/* We get called from drivers/char/misc.c with misc_mtx hold, and we
call misc_register() from fschmd_probe() with watchdog_data_mutex
@ -782,10 +783,12 @@ static int watchdog_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *filp)
}
}
/* Note we can never not have found data, so we don't check for this */
kref_get(&data->kref);
watchdog_is_open = test_and_set_bit(0, &data->watchdog_is_open);
if (!watchdog_is_open)
kref_get(&data->kref);
mutex_unlock(&watchdog_data_mutex);
if (test_and_set_bit(0, &data->watchdog_is_open))
if (watchdog_is_open)
return -EBUSY;
/* Start the watchdog */