This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled ACPI: scan: Fix a memory leak in an error handling path to the 4.9-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: acpi-scan-fix-a-memory-leak-in-an-error-handling-pat.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 1e300e9575dbf7dc59aa4b84e187642b8da98d75 Author: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Sat May 8 09:23:09 2021 +0200 ACPI: scan: Fix a memory leak in an error handling path [ Upstream commit 0c8bd174f0fc131bc9dfab35cd8784f59045da87 ] If 'acpi_device_set_name()' fails, we must free 'acpi_device_bus_id->bus_id' or there is a (potential) memory leak. Fixes: eb50aaf960e3 ("ACPI: scan: Use unique number for instance_no") Signed-off-by: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/acpi/scan.c b/drivers/acpi/scan.c index d749fe20fbfc..89ce7b14a166 100644 --- a/drivers/acpi/scan.c +++ b/drivers/acpi/scan.c @@ -704,6 +704,7 @@ int acpi_device_add(struct acpi_device *device, result = acpi_device_set_name(device, acpi_device_bus_id); if (result) { + kfree_const(acpi_device_bus_id->bus_id); kfree(acpi_device_bus_id); goto err_unlock; }