This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
of: overlay: kmemleak in dup_and_fixup_symbol_prop()
to the 5.4-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:
of-overlay-kmemleak-in-dup_and_fixup_symbol_prop.patch
and it can be found in the queue-5.4 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 478ff649b1c8eb2409b1a54fb75eb46f7c29f140 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Frank Rowand <frank.rowand@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2020 16:42:49 -0500
Subject: of: overlay: kmemleak in dup_and_fixup_symbol_prop()
From: Frank Rowand <frank.rowand@xxxxxxxx>
commit 478ff649b1c8eb2409b1a54fb75eb46f7c29f140 upstream.
kmemleak reports several memory leaks from devicetree unittest.
This is the fix for problem 4 of 5.
target_path was not freed in the non-error path.
Fixes: e0a58f3e08d4 ("of: overlay: remove a dependency on device node full_name")
Reported-by: Erhard F. <erhard_f@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Frank Rowand <frank.rowand@xxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Rob Herring <robh@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/of/overlay.c | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
--- a/drivers/of/overlay.c
+++ b/drivers/of/overlay.c
@@ -261,6 +261,8 @@ static struct property *dup_and_fixup_sy
of_property_set_flag(new_prop, OF_DYNAMIC);
+ kfree(target_path);
+
return new_prop;
err_free_new_prop:
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from frank.rowand@xxxxxxxx are
queue-5.4/of-overlay-kmemleak-in-dup_and_fixup_symbol_prop.patch
queue-5.4/of-unittest-kmemleak-in-of_unittest_platform_populate.patch
queue-5.4/of-unittest-kmemleak-on-changeset-destroy.patch
queue-5.4/of-unittest-kmemleak-in-of_unittest_overlay_high_level.patch
