This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled octeontx2-af: Fix memory leak of object buf 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: octeontx2-af-fix-memory-leak-of-object-buf.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 3056c233ccc217231f46ff37428bdcddddcce392 Author: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue Mar 23 12:32:45 2021 +0000 octeontx2-af: Fix memory leak of object buf [ Upstream commit 9e0a537d06fc36861e4f78d0a7df1fe2b3592714 ] Currently the error return path when lfs fails to allocate is not free'ing the memory allocated to buf. Fix this by adding the missing kfree. Addresses-Coverity: ("Resource leak") Fixes: f7884097141b ("octeontx2-af: Formatting debugfs entry rsrc_alloc.") Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Sunil Goutham <sgoutham@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/octeontx2/af/rvu_debugfs.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/octeontx2/af/rvu_debugfs.c index ea1e520b6552..0488651a68d0 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/octeontx2/af/rvu_debugfs.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/octeontx2/af/rvu_debugfs.c @@ -169,8 +169,10 @@ static ssize_t rvu_dbg_rsrc_attach_status(struct file *filp, return -ENOSPC; lfs = kzalloc(lf_str_size, GFP_KERNEL); - if (!lfs) + if (!lfs) { + kfree(buf); return -ENOMEM; + } off += scnprintf(&buf[off], buf_size - 1 - off, "%-*s", lf_str_size, "pcifunc"); for (index = 0; index < BLK_COUNT; index++)