This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled drm/crc-debugfs: Fix memleak in crc_control_write to the 5.8-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: drm-crc-debugfs-fix-memleak-in-crc_control_write.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.8 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 0b04e82eda42f6a78bf363f1a1f25030acba9bd8 Author: Dinghao Liu <dinghao.liu@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed Aug 19 16:22:28 2020 +0800 drm/crc-debugfs: Fix memleak in crc_control_write [ Upstream commit f7ec68b341dbd5da13d4c65ce444dcd605f1c42e ] When verify_crc_source() fails, source needs to be freed. However, current code is returning directly and ends up leaking memory. Fixes: d5cc15a0c66e ("drm: crc: Introduce verify_crc_source callback") Signed-off-by: Dinghao Liu <dinghao.liu@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [danvet: change Fixes: tag per Laurent's review] Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@xxxxxxxx> Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20200819082228.26847-1-dinghao.liu@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_debugfs_crc.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_debugfs_crc.c index 5d67a41f7c3a8..3dd70d813f694 100644 --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_debugfs_crc.c +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_debugfs_crc.c @@ -144,8 +144,10 @@ static ssize_t crc_control_write(struct file *file, const char __user *ubuf, source[len - 1] = '\0'; ret = crtc->funcs->verify_crc_source(crtc, source, &values_cnt); - if (ret) + if (ret) { + kfree(source); return ret; + } spin_lock_irq(&crc->lock);