This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled libertas_tf: Fix possible memory leak in probe and disconnect to the 4.4-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: libertas_tf-fix-possible-memory-leak-in-probe-and-di.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit b0512a5db24da667ddcd12db96101e203b2f89e9 Author: Wang Hai <wanghai38@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed Oct 20 20:03:44 2021 +0800 libertas_tf: Fix possible memory leak in probe and disconnect [ Upstream commit d549107305b4634c81223a853701c06bcf657bc3 ] I got memory leak as follows when doing fault injection test: unreferenced object 0xffff88810a2ddc00 (size 512): comm "kworker/6:1", pid 176, jiffies 4295009893 (age 757.220s) hex dump (first 32 bytes): 00 50 05 18 81 88 ff ff 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 .P.............. 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ backtrace: [<ffffffff8167939c>] slab_post_alloc_hook+0x9c/0x490 [<ffffffff8167f627>] kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0x1f7/0x470 [<ffffffffa02a1530>] if_usb_probe+0x60/0x37c [libertas_tf_usb] [<ffffffffa022668a>] usb_probe_interface+0x1aa/0x3c0 [usbcore] [<ffffffff82b59630>] really_probe+0x190/0x480 [<ffffffff82b59a19>] __driver_probe_device+0xf9/0x180 [<ffffffff82b59af3>] driver_probe_device+0x53/0x130 [<ffffffff82b5a075>] __device_attach_driver+0x105/0x130 [<ffffffff82b55949>] bus_for_each_drv+0x129/0x190 [<ffffffff82b593c9>] __device_attach+0x1c9/0x270 [<ffffffff82b5a250>] device_initial_probe+0x20/0x30 [<ffffffff82b579c2>] bus_probe_device+0x142/0x160 [<ffffffff82b52e49>] device_add+0x829/0x1300 [<ffffffffa02229b1>] usb_set_configuration+0xb01/0xcc0 [usbcore] [<ffffffffa0235c4e>] usb_generic_driver_probe+0x6e/0x90 [usbcore] [<ffffffffa022641f>] usb_probe_device+0x6f/0x130 [usbcore] cardp is missing being freed in the error handling path of the probe and the path of the disconnect, which will cause memory leak. This patch adds the missing kfree(). Fixes: c305a19a0d0a ("libertas_tf: usb specific functions") Reported-by: Hulk Robot <hulkci@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Wang Hai <wanghai38@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211020120345.2016045-2-wanghai38@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/libertas_tf/if_usb.c b/drivers/net/wireless/libertas_tf/if_usb.c index 799a2efe57937..193f8f70c4edb 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/libertas_tf/if_usb.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/libertas_tf/if_usb.c @@ -240,6 +240,7 @@ static int if_usb_probe(struct usb_interface *intf, dealloc: if_usb_free(cardp); + kfree(cardp); error: lbtf_deb_leave(LBTF_DEB_MAIN); return -ENOMEM; @@ -264,6 +265,7 @@ static void if_usb_disconnect(struct usb_interface *intf) /* Unlink and free urb */ if_usb_free(cardp); + kfree(cardp); usb_set_intfdata(intf, NULL); usb_put_dev(interface_to_usbdev(intf));