This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled net/mlx5e: IPsec: Use kvfree() for memory allocated with kvzalloc() to the 5.9-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: net-mlx5e-ipsec-use-kvfree-for-memory-allocated-with.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.9 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 91afb55d2167407ee03592d056e8d5962cd60d59 Author: Denis Efremov <efremov@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon Sep 21 19:23:44 2020 +0300 net/mlx5e: IPsec: Use kvfree() for memory allocated with kvzalloc() [ Upstream commit 22db4c24452a6681c7e99c6a06b38b5418395bec ] Variables flow_group_in, spec in rx_fs_create() are allocated with kvzalloc(). It's incorrect to free them with kfree(). Use kvfree() instead. Fixes: 5e466345291a ("net/mlx5e: IPsec: Add IPsec steering in local NIC RX") Signed-off-by: Denis Efremov <efremov@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_accel/ipsec_fs.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_accel/ipsec_fs.c index 429428bbc903c..b974f3cd10058 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_accel/ipsec_fs.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_accel/ipsec_fs.c @@ -228,8 +228,8 @@ static int rx_fs_create(struct mlx5e_priv *priv, fs_prot->miss_rule = miss_rule; out: - kfree(flow_group_in); - kfree(spec); + kvfree(flow_group_in); + kvfree(spec); return err; }