[PATCH v3 5/6] gpiolib: cdev: don't leak the IRQ name when the chip is removed
From: Adrian Ambrozewicz
Date: Tue Oct 20 2026 - 09:21:04 EST
The character device requests line IRQs with a copy of the consumer
label as the name, and frees the name that free_irq() returns. When
gpiochip_remove() frees the IRQ first, it drops that name and the copy
leaks:
unreferenced object (size 8):
comm "gpio-hold"
backtrace (crc dc8eac94):
kstrdup
kstrdup_and_replace
edge_detector_setup
linereq_create
gpio_ioctl
Keep the name with the line or v1 line event, and free it there,
whoever freed the IRQ.
Reproduced with gpio-sim: remove the chip under an open request with
edge detection and a consumer label. kmemleak reports up to 23 such
objects after 30 cycles; with this change, none after 100.
Fixes: ec8b6f55b981 ("gpio: free irqs that are still requested when the chip is being removed")
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Assisted-by: LLM
Signed-off-by: Adrian Ambrozewicz <aambrozewicz@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/gpio/gpiolib-cdev.c | 23 ++++++++++++++++-------
1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/gpio/gpiolib-cdev.c b/drivers/gpio/gpiolib-cdev.c
index c5869e3f7767..cf23b5296fd1 100644
--- a/drivers/gpio/gpiolib-cdev.c
+++ b/drivers/gpio/gpiolib-cdev.c
@@ -399,6 +399,7 @@ static int linehandle_create(struct gpio_device *gdev, void __user *ip)
* @desc: the GPIO descriptor for this line.
* @req: the corresponding line request
* @irq: the interrupt triggered in response to events on this GPIO
+ * @irq_label: the name @irq was requested with
* @edflags: the edge flags, GPIO_V2_LINE_FLAG_EDGE_RISING and/or
* GPIO_V2_LINE_FLAG_EDGE_FALLING, indicating the edge detection applied
* @timestamp_ns: cache for the timestamp storing it between hardirq and
@@ -422,6 +423,7 @@ struct line {
*/
struct linereq *req;
unsigned int irq;
+ char *irq_label;
/*
* The flags for the active edge detector configuration.
*
@@ -601,16 +603,18 @@ static inline void free_irq_label(const char *label)
/*
* gpiochip_remove() frees the interrupts still requested on the lines of the
* chip being removed, so once the chip is going away the IRQ may no longer be
- * ours to free.
+ * ours to free. The label is kept by the caller as free_irq() is then not the
+ * one returning it.
*/
-static void free_line_irq(unsigned int irq, void *dev_id)
+static void free_line_irq(unsigned int irq, void *dev_id, char **label)
{
- const char *name = NULL;
+ const char *name = *label;
if (irq && irq_has_action(irq))
- name = free_irq(irq, dev_id);
+ free_irq(irq, dev_id);
free_irq_label(name);
+ *label = NULL;
}
#ifdef CONFIG_HTE
@@ -936,6 +940,7 @@ static int debounce_setup(struct line *line, unsigned int debounce_period_us)
return ret;
}
line->irq = irq;
+ line->irq_label = label;
} else {
ret = hte_edge_setup(line, GPIO_V2_LINE_FLAG_EDGE_BOTH);
if (ret)
@@ -978,7 +983,7 @@ static u32 gpio_v2_line_config_debounce_period(struct gpio_v2_line_config *lc,
static void edge_detector_stop(struct line *line)
{
- free_line_irq(line->irq, line);
+ free_line_irq(line->irq, line, &line->irq_label);
line->irq = 0;
#ifdef CONFIG_HTE
@@ -1078,6 +1083,7 @@ static int edge_detector_setup(struct line *line,
}
line->irq = irq;
+ line->irq_label = label;
return 0;
}
@@ -1776,6 +1782,7 @@ static int linereq_create(struct gpio_device *gdev, void __user *ip)
* @desc: the GPIO descriptor held by this event
* @eflags: the event flags this line was requested with
* @irq: the interrupt that trigger in response to events on this GPIO
+ * @irq_label: the name @irq was requested with
* @wait: wait queue that handles blocking reads of events
* @device_unregistered_nb: notifier block for receiving gdev unregister events
* @events: KFIFO for the GPIO events
@@ -1789,6 +1796,7 @@ struct lineevent_state {
struct gpio_desc *desc;
u32 eflags;
int irq;
+ char *irq_label;
wait_queue_head_t wait;
struct notifier_block device_unregistered_nb;
DECLARE_KFIFO(events, struct gpioevent_data, 16);
@@ -1824,7 +1832,7 @@ static int lineevent_unregistered_notify(struct notifier_block *nb,
struct lineevent_state *le = container_of(nb, struct lineevent_state,
device_unregistered_nb);
- free_line_irq(le->irq, le);
+ free_line_irq(le->irq, le, &le->irq_label);
le->irq = 0;
wake_up_poll(&le->wait, EPOLLIN | EPOLLERR);
@@ -1908,7 +1916,7 @@ static void lineevent_free(struct lineevent_state *le)
if (le->device_unregistered_nb.notifier_call)
blocking_notifier_chain_unregister(&le->gdev->device_notifier,
&le->device_unregistered_nb);
- free_line_irq(le->irq, le);
+ free_line_irq(le->irq, le, &le->irq_label);
if (le->desc)
gpiod_free(le->desc);
kfree(le->label);
@@ -2147,6 +2155,7 @@ static int lineevent_create(struct gpio_device *gdev, void __user *ip)
}
le->irq = irq;
+ le->irq_label = label;
FD_PREPARE(fdf, O_RDONLY | O_CLOEXEC,
anon_inode_getfile("gpio-event", &lineevent_fileops, le,
--
2.43.0