This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled RDMA/rtrs-srv-sysfs: fix missing put_device to the 5.11-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: rdma-rtrs-srv-sysfs-fix-missing-put_device.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.11 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 1575041d334843837f4619e9f4117dbee2d6682c Author: Gioh Kim <gi-oh.kim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri Feb 12 14:45:25 2021 +0100 RDMA/rtrs-srv-sysfs: fix missing put_device [ Upstream commit e2853c49477d104c01d3c7944e1fb5074eb11d9f ] put_device() decreases the ref-count and then the device will be cleaned-up, while at is also add missing put_device in rtrs_srv_create_once_sysfs_root_folders This patch solves a kmemleak error as below: unreferenced object 0xffff88809a7a0710 (size 8): comm "kworker/4:1H", pid 113, jiffies 4295833049 (age 6212.380s) hex dump (first 8 bytes): 62 6c 61 00 6b 6b 6b a5 bla.kkk. backtrace: [<0000000054413611>] kstrdup+0x2e/0x60 [<0000000078e3120a>] kobject_set_name_vargs+0x2f/0xb0 [<00000000f1a17a6b>] dev_set_name+0xab/0xe0 [<00000000d5502e32>] rtrs_srv_create_sess_files+0x2fb/0x314 [rtrs_server] [<00000000ed11a1ef>] rtrs_srv_info_req_done+0x631/0x800 [rtrs_server] [<000000008fc5aa8f>] __ib_process_cq+0x94/0x100 [ib_core] [<00000000a9599cb4>] ib_cq_poll_work+0x32/0xc0 [ib_core] [<00000000cfc376be>] process_one_work+0x4bc/0x980 [<0000000016e5c96a>] worker_thread+0x78/0x5c0 [<00000000c20b8be0>] kthread+0x191/0x1e0 [<000000006c9c0003>] ret_from_fork+0x3a/0x50 Fixes: baa5b28b7a47 ("RDMA/rtrs-srv: Replace device_register with device_initialize and device_add") Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210212134525.103456-5-jinpu.wang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Gioh Kim <gi-oh.kim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jack Wang <jinpu.wang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/ulp/rtrs/rtrs-srv-sysfs.c b/drivers/infiniband/ulp/rtrs/rtrs-srv-sysfs.c index 94e3f3290500a..126a96e75c621 100644 --- a/drivers/infiniband/ulp/rtrs/rtrs-srv-sysfs.c +++ b/drivers/infiniband/ulp/rtrs/rtrs-srv-sysfs.c @@ -183,6 +183,7 @@ static int rtrs_srv_create_once_sysfs_root_folders(struct rtrs_srv_sess *sess) err = -ENOMEM; pr_err("kobject_create_and_add(): %d\n", err); device_del(&srv->dev); + put_device(&srv->dev); goto unlock; } dev_set_uevent_suppress(&srv->dev, false); @@ -208,6 +209,7 @@ rtrs_srv_destroy_once_sysfs_root_folders(struct rtrs_srv_sess *sess) kobject_put(srv->kobj_paths); mutex_unlock(&srv->paths_mutex); device_del(&srv->dev); + put_device(&srv->dev); } else { mutex_unlock(&srv->paths_mutex); }