This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled vfio: platform: fix reference leak in vfio_platform_open 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: vfio-platform-fix-reference-leak-in-vfio_platform_op.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 2af31f1f7bb567420a7709c52b68a04af4022843 Author: Zhang Qilong <zhangqilong3@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Sat Oct 31 11:03:53 2020 +0800 vfio: platform: fix reference leak in vfio_platform_open [ Upstream commit bb742ad01961a3b9d1f9d19375487b879668b6b2 ] pm_runtime_get_sync() will increment pm usage counter even it failed. Forgetting to call pm_runtime_put will result in reference leak in vfio_platform_open, so we should fix it. Signed-off-by: Zhang Qilong <zhangqilong3@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Eric Auger <eric.auger@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/vfio/platform/vfio_platform_common.c b/drivers/vfio/platform/vfio_platform_common.c index c0771a9567fb5..fb4b385191f28 100644 --- a/drivers/vfio/platform/vfio_platform_common.c +++ b/drivers/vfio/platform/vfio_platform_common.c @@ -267,7 +267,7 @@ static int vfio_platform_open(void *device_data) ret = pm_runtime_get_sync(vdev->device); if (ret < 0) - goto err_pm; + goto err_rst; ret = vfio_platform_call_reset(vdev, &extra_dbg); if (ret && vdev->reset_required) { @@ -284,7 +284,6 @@ static int vfio_platform_open(void *device_data) err_rst: pm_runtime_put(vdev->device); -err_pm: vfio_platform_irq_cleanup(vdev); err_irq: vfio_platform_regions_cleanup(vdev);