This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled brcmsmac: fix memory leak in wlc_phy_attach_lcnphy 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: brcmsmac-fix-memory-leak-in-wlc_phy_attach_lcnphy.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 05e9b738b68e24240b141f5dfd82b788cacdbbb1 Author: Keita Suzuki <keitasuzuki.park@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue Sep 8 12:17:41 2020 +0000 brcmsmac: fix memory leak in wlc_phy_attach_lcnphy [ Upstream commit f4443293d741d1776b86ed1dd8c4e4285d0775fc ] When wlc_phy_txpwr_srom_read_lcnphy fails in wlc_phy_attach_lcnphy, the allocated pi->u.pi_lcnphy is leaked, since struct brcms_phy will be freed in the caller function. Fix this by calling wlc_phy_detach_lcnphy in the error handler of wlc_phy_txpwr_srom_read_lcnphy before returning. Signed-off-by: Keita Suzuki <keitasuzuki.park@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200908121743.23108-1-keitasuzuki.park@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmsmac/phy/phy_lcn.c b/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmsmac/phy/phy_lcn.c index 7ef36234a25dc..66797dc5e90d5 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmsmac/phy/phy_lcn.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmsmac/phy/phy_lcn.c @@ -5065,8 +5065,10 @@ bool wlc_phy_attach_lcnphy(struct brcms_phy *pi) pi->pi_fptr.radioloftget = wlc_lcnphy_get_radio_loft; pi->pi_fptr.detach = wlc_phy_detach_lcnphy; - if (!wlc_phy_txpwr_srom_read_lcnphy(pi)) + if (!wlc_phy_txpwr_srom_read_lcnphy(pi)) { + kfree(pi->u.pi_lcnphy); return false; + } if (LCNREV_IS(pi->pubpi.phy_rev, 1)) { if (pi_lcn->lcnphy_tempsense_option == 3) {