This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled bsg: free the request before return error code to the 5.4-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: bsg-free-the-request-before-return-error-code.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.4 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 4309d13d086306629d3f655c4a20bfd30a9540fa Author: Pan Bian <bianpan2016@xxxxxxx> Date: Tue Jan 19 04:33:11 2021 -0800 bsg: free the request before return error code [ Upstream commit 0f7b4bc6bb1e57c48ef14f1818df947c1612b206 ] Free the request rq before returning error code. Fixes: 972248e9111e ("scsi: bsg-lib: handle bidi requests without block layer help") Signed-off-by: Pan Bian <bianpan2016@xxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/block/bsg.c b/block/bsg.c index 833c44b3d458e..0d012efef5274 100644 --- a/block/bsg.c +++ b/block/bsg.c @@ -157,8 +157,10 @@ static int bsg_sg_io(struct request_queue *q, fmode_t mode, void __user *uarg) return PTR_ERR(rq); ret = q->bsg_dev.ops->fill_hdr(rq, &hdr, mode); - if (ret) + if (ret) { + blk_put_request(rq); return ret; + } rq->timeout = msecs_to_jiffies(hdr.timeout); if (!rq->timeout)