The patch titled Subject: rapidio: rio: fix possible name leak in rio_register_mport() has been added to the -mm mm-nonmm-unstable branch. Its filename is rapidio-rio-fix-possible-name-leak-in-rio_register_mport.patch This patch will shortly appear at https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/25-new.git/tree/patches/rapidio-rio-fix-possible-name-leak-in-rio_register_mport.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: Yang Yingliang <yangyingliang@xxxxxxxxxx> Subject: rapidio: rio: fix possible name leak in rio_register_mport() Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2022 23:26:36 +0800 If device_register() returns error, the name allocated by dev_set_name() need be freed. It should use put_device() to give up the reference in the error path, so that the name can be freed in kobject_cleanup(), and list_del() is called to delete the port from rio_mports. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221114152636.2939035-3-yangyingliang@xxxxxxxxxx Fixes: 2aaf308b95b2 ("rapidio: rework device hierarchy and introduce mport class of devices") Signed-off-by: Yang Yingliang <yangyingliang@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Alexandre Bounine <alex.bou9@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Matt Porter <mporter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/rapidio/rio.c | 9 +++++++-- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/rapidio/rio.c~rapidio-rio-fix-possible-name-leak-in-rio_register_mport +++ a/drivers/rapidio/rio.c @@ -2186,11 +2186,16 @@ int rio_register_mport(struct rio_mport atomic_set(&port->state, RIO_DEVICE_RUNNING); res = device_register(&port->dev); - if (res) + if (res) { dev_err(&port->dev, "RIO: mport%d registration failed ERR=%d\n", port->id, res); - else + mutex_lock(&rio_mport_list_lock); + list_del(&port->node); + mutex_unlock(&rio_mport_list_lock); + put_device(&port->dev); + } else { dev_dbg(&port->dev, "RIO: registered mport%d\n", port->id); + } return res; } _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from yangyingliang@xxxxxxxxxx are rapidio-fix-possible-name-leaks-when-rio_add_device-fails.patch rapidio-rio-fix-possible-name-leak-in-rio_register_mport.patch