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SubjectRe: Inconsistency in usb_add_gadget_udc_release() interface
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Hi,

Alexey Khoroshilov <khoroshilov@ispras.ru> writes:
> Hello,
>
> usb_add_gadget_udc_release() gets release() argument that allows to
> release user resources.
>
> As far as I can see, the release() is called on error paths
> of usb_add_gadget_udc_release() as a result of
> put_device(&gadget->dev);
> except for the only path going via err1.
>
> As a result a caller of the usb_add_gadget_udc_release() have no chance
> to know if the release() was invoked or not.
>
> It may lead to memory leaks (drivers/usb/gadget/udc/snps_udc_core.c)
> or to double free (drivers/usb/gadget/udc/fsl_udc_core.c).
>
> Is my reading correct? If so, should we always call release() on error paths?

unfortunately, it's not :-)

Note that we don't register gadget->dev until later in the code, so
there's nothing to be ->released() that early.

--
balbi
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