This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled crypto: ccree - fix backlog memory leak to the 4.19-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: crypto-ccree-fix-backlog-memory-leak.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.19 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 4df2ef25b3b3618fd708ab484fe6239abd130fec Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Gilad Ben-Yossef <gilad@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2019 10:49:08 +0200 Subject: crypto: ccree - fix backlog memory leak From: Gilad Ben-Yossef <gilad@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> commit 4df2ef25b3b3618fd708ab484fe6239abd130fec upstream. Fix brown paper bag bug of not releasing backlog list item buffer when backlog was consumed causing a memory leak when backlog is used. Signed-off-by: Gilad Ben-Yossef <gilad@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx # v4.19+ Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/crypto/ccree/cc_request_mgr.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) --- a/drivers/crypto/ccree/cc_request_mgr.c +++ b/drivers/crypto/ccree/cc_request_mgr.c @@ -403,6 +403,7 @@ static void cc_proc_backlog(struct cc_dr spin_lock(&mgr->bl_lock); list_del(&bli->list); --mgr->bl_len; + kfree(bli); } spin_unlock(&mgr->bl_lock); Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from gilad@xxxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.19/crypto-ccree-fix-pm-race-condition.patch queue-4.19/crypto-ccree-fix-backlog-memory-leak.patch queue-4.19/crypto-ccree-fix-pm-wrongful-error-reporting.patch