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rust: pwm: Fix potential memory leak on init error
authorKari Argillander <kari.argillander@gmail.com>
Fri, 2 Jan 2026 07:51:41 +0000 (09:51 +0200)
committerUwe Kleine-König <ukleinek@kernel.org>
Tue, 20 Jan 2026 17:49:58 +0000 (18:49 +0100)
When initializing a PWM chip using pwmchip_alloc(), the allocated device
owns an initial reference that must be released on all error paths.

If __pinned_init() were to fail, the allocated pwm_chip would currently
leak because the error path returns without calling pwmchip_put().

Fixes: 7b3dce814a15 ("rust: pwm: Add Kconfig and basic data structures")
Signed-off-by: Kari Argillander <kari.argillander@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Michal Wilczynski <m.wilczynski@samsung.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260102-pwm-rust-v2-1-2702ce57d571@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <ukleinek@kernel.org>
rust/kernel/pwm.rs

index 2dd72a39acb5d0533f2fbc038109b1a483b7c5b0..4f683158fc0816a1bd238e1d253467dbf5f63885 100644 (file)
@@ -607,7 +607,11 @@ impl<T: PwmOps> Chip<T> {
         let drvdata_ptr = unsafe { bindings::pwmchip_get_drvdata(c_chip_ptr) };
 
         // SAFETY: We construct the `T` object in-place in the allocated private memory.
-        unsafe { data.__pinned_init(drvdata_ptr.cast())? };
+        unsafe { data.__pinned_init(drvdata_ptr.cast()) }.inspect_err(|_| {
+            // SAFETY: It is safe to call `pwmchip_put()` with a valid pointer obtained
+            // from `pwmchip_alloc()`. We will not use pointer after this.
+            unsafe { bindings::pwmchip_put(c_chip_ptr) }
+        })?;
 
         // SAFETY: `c_chip_ptr` points to a valid chip.
         unsafe {