The patch titled Subject: ocfs2: fix memory leak in ocfs2_stack_glue_init() has been added to the -mm mm-nonmm-unstable branch. Its filename is ocfs2-fix-memory-leak-in-ocfs2_stack_glue_init.patch This patch will shortly appear at https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/25-new.git/tree/patches/ocfs2-fix-memory-leak-in-ocfs2_stack_glue_init.patch This patch will later appear in the mm-nonmm-unstable branch at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/process/submit-checklist.rst when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next via the mm-everything branch at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm and is updated there every 2-3 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Shang XiaoJing <shangxiaojing@xxxxxxxxxx> Subject: ocfs2: fix memory leak in ocfs2_stack_glue_init() Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2022 19:15:33 +0800 ocfs2_table_header should be free in ocfs2_stack_glue_init() if ocfs2_sysfs_init() failed, otherwise kmemleak will report memleak. BUG: memory leak unreferenced object 0xffff88810eeb5800 (size 128): comm "modprobe", pid 4507, jiffies 4296182506 (age 55.888s) hex dump (first 32 bytes): c0 40 14 a0 ff ff ff ff 00 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 .@.............. 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ backtrace: [<000000001e59e1cd>] __register_sysctl_table+0xca/0xef0 [<00000000c04f70f7>] 0xffffffffa0050037 [<000000001bd12912>] do_one_initcall+0xdb/0x480 [<0000000064f766c9>] do_init_module+0x1cf/0x680 [<000000002ba52db0>] load_module+0x6441/0x6f20 [<000000009772580d>] __do_sys_finit_module+0x12f/0x1c0 [<00000000380c1f22>] do_syscall_64+0x3f/0x90 [<000000004cf473bc>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/41651ca1-432a-db34-eb97-d35744559de1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fixes: 3878f110f71a ("ocfs2: Move the hb_ctl_path sysctl into the stack glue.") Signed-off-by: Shang XiaoJing <shangxiaojing@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Joseph Qi <joseph.qi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Mark Fasheh <mark@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Joel Becker <jlbec@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Junxiao Bi <junxiao.bi@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Changwei Ge <gechangwei@xxxxxxx> Cc: Gang He <ghe@xxxxxxxx> Cc: Jun Piao <piaojun@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/ocfs2/stackglue.c | 8 +++++++- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/fs/ocfs2/stackglue.c~ocfs2-fix-memory-leak-in-ocfs2_stack_glue_init +++ a/fs/ocfs2/stackglue.c @@ -669,6 +669,8 @@ static struct ctl_table_header *ocfs2_ta static int __init ocfs2_stack_glue_init(void) { + int ret; + strcpy(cluster_stack_name, OCFS2_STACK_PLUGIN_O2CB); ocfs2_table_header = register_sysctl("fs/ocfs2/nm", ocfs2_nm_table); @@ -678,7 +680,11 @@ static int __init ocfs2_stack_glue_init( return -ENOMEM; /* or something. */ } - return ocfs2_sysfs_init(); + ret = ocfs2_sysfs_init(); + if (ret) + unregister_sysctl_table(ocfs2_table_header); + + return ret; } static void __exit ocfs2_stack_glue_exit(void) _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from shangxiaojing@xxxxxxxxxx are ocfs2-fix-memory-leak-in-ocfs2_stack_glue_init.patch