This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled cpuidle: Fix kobject memory leaks in error paths to the 4.14-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: cpuidle-fix-kobject-memory-leaks-in-error-paths.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.14 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 3e3345ab00f92f3db7938c083940dd03d11fc37e Author: Anel Orazgaliyeva <anelkz@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon Sep 6 18:34:40 2021 +0000 cpuidle: Fix kobject memory leaks in error paths [ Upstream commit e5f5a66c9aa9c331da5527c2e3fd9394e7091e01 ] Commit c343bf1ba5ef ("cpuidle: Fix three reference count leaks") fixes the cleanup of kobjects; however, it removes kfree() calls altogether, leading to memory leaks. Fix those and also defer the initialization of dev->kobj_dev until after the error check, so that we do not end up with a dangling pointer. Fixes: c343bf1ba5ef ("cpuidle: Fix three reference count leaks") Signed-off-by: Anel Orazgaliyeva <anelkz@xxxxxxxxx> Suggested-by: Aman Priyadarshi <apeureka@xxxxxxxxx> [ rjw: Subject edits ] Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/cpuidle/sysfs.c b/drivers/cpuidle/sysfs.c index 909bd2255978b..a29d7a6e68487 100644 --- a/drivers/cpuidle/sysfs.c +++ b/drivers/cpuidle/sysfs.c @@ -415,6 +415,7 @@ static int cpuidle_add_state_sysfs(struct cpuidle_device *device) &kdev->kobj, "state%d", i); if (ret) { kobject_put(&kobj->kobj); + kfree(kobj); goto error_state; } kobject_uevent(&kobj->kobj, KOBJ_ADD); @@ -545,6 +546,7 @@ static int cpuidle_add_driver_sysfs(struct cpuidle_device *dev) &kdev->kobj, "driver"); if (ret) { kobject_put(&kdrv->kobj); + kfree(kdrv); return ret; } @@ -631,7 +633,6 @@ int cpuidle_add_sysfs(struct cpuidle_device *dev) if (!kdev) return -ENOMEM; kdev->dev = dev; - dev->kobj_dev = kdev; init_completion(&kdev->kobj_unregister); @@ -639,9 +640,11 @@ int cpuidle_add_sysfs(struct cpuidle_device *dev) "cpuidle"); if (error) { kobject_put(&kdev->kobj); + kfree(kdev); return error; } + dev->kobj_dev = kdev; kobject_uevent(&kdev->kobj, KOBJ_ADD); return 0;