From: Jouni Hogander <jouni.hogander@xxxxxxxxxx> This patch is fixing memory leak reported by Syzkaller: BUG: memory leak unreferenced object 0xffff888067f65500 (size 4096): comm "syz-executor043", pid 454, jiffies 4294759719 (age 11.930s) hex dump (first 32 bytes): 73 6c 63 61 6e 30 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 slcan0.......... 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ backtrace: [<00000000a06eec0d>] __kmalloc+0x18b/0x2c0 [<0000000083306e66>] kvmalloc_node+0x3a/0xc0 [<000000006ac27f87>] alloc_netdev_mqs+0x17a/0x1080 [<0000000061a996c9>] slcan_open+0x3ae/0x9a0 [<000000001226f0f9>] tty_ldisc_open.isra.1+0x76/0xc0 [<0000000019289631>] tty_set_ldisc+0x28c/0x5f0 [<000000004de5a617>] tty_ioctl+0x48d/0x1590 [<00000000daef496f>] do_vfs_ioctl+0x1c7/0x1510 [<0000000059068dbc>] ksys_ioctl+0x99/0xb0 [<000000009a6eb334>] __x64_sys_ioctl+0x78/0xb0 [<0000000053d0332e>] do_syscall_64+0x16f/0x580 [<0000000021b83b99>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xa9 [<000000008ea75434>] 0xffffffffffffffff Cc: Wolfgang Grandegger <wg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Marc Kleine-Budde <mkl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jouni Hogander <jouni.hogander@xxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/net/can/slcan.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/drivers/net/can/slcan.c b/drivers/net/can/slcan.c index bb6032211043..0a9f42e5fedf 100644 --- a/drivers/net/can/slcan.c +++ b/drivers/net/can/slcan.c @@ -617,6 +617,7 @@ static int slcan_open(struct tty_struct *tty) sl->tty = NULL; tty->disc_data = NULL; clear_bit(SLF_INUSE, &sl->flags); + free_netdev(sl->dev); err_exit: rtnl_unlock(); -- 2.17.1