PCI: fix reference leak in pci_get_dev_by_id()
authorGreg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
Thu, 21 Aug 2008 20:47:58 +0000 (13:47 -0700)
committerJesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
Thu, 21 Aug 2008 22:22:46 +0000 (15:22 -0700)
Alex Chiang and Matthew Wilcox pointed out that pci_get_dev_by_id() does
not properly decrement the reference on the from pointer if it is
present, like the documentation for the function states it will.

It fixes a pretty bad leak in the hotplug core (we were leaking an
entire struct pci_dev for each function of each offlined card, the first
time around; subsequent onlines/offlines were ok).

Cc: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
Cc: stable <stable@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Alex Chiang <achiang@hp.com>
Acked-by: Alex Chiang <achiang@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
drivers/pci/search.c

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@@ -280,6 +280,8 @@ static struct pci_dev *pci_get_dev_by_id(const struct pci_device_id *id,
                              match_pci_dev_by_id);
        if (dev)
                pdev = to_pci_dev(dev);
+       if (from)
+               pci_dev_put(from);
        return pdev;
 }