This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled nfp: Fix memory leak in nfp_cpp_area_cache_add() to the 5.15-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: nfp-fix-memory-leak-in-nfp_cpp_area_cache_add.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.15 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From c56c96303e9289cc34716b1179597b6f470833de Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jianglei Nie <niejianglei2021@xxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2021 14:15:11 +0800 Subject: nfp: Fix memory leak in nfp_cpp_area_cache_add() From: Jianglei Nie <niejianglei2021@xxxxxxx> commit c56c96303e9289cc34716b1179597b6f470833de upstream. In line 800 (#1), nfp_cpp_area_alloc() allocates and initializes a CPP area structure. But in line 807 (#2), when the cache is allocated failed, this CPP area structure is not freed, which will result in memory leak. We can fix it by freeing the CPP area when the cache is allocated failed (#2). 792 int nfp_cpp_area_cache_add(struct nfp_cpp *cpp, size_t size) 793 { 794 struct nfp_cpp_area_cache *cache; 795 struct nfp_cpp_area *area; 800 area = nfp_cpp_area_alloc(cpp, NFP_CPP_ID(7, NFP_CPP_ACTION_RW, 0), 801 0, size); // #1: allocates and initializes 802 if (!area) 803 return -ENOMEM; 805 cache = kzalloc(sizeof(*cache), GFP_KERNEL); 806 if (!cache) 807 return -ENOMEM; // #2: missing free 817 return 0; 818 } Fixes: 4cb584e0ee7d ("nfp: add CPP access core") Signed-off-by: Jianglei Nie <niejianglei2021@xxxxxxx> Acked-by: Simon Horman <simon.horman@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211209061511.122535-1-niejianglei2021@xxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/net/ethernet/netronome/nfp/nfpcore/nfp_cppcore.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/netronome/nfp/nfpcore/nfp_cppcore.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/netronome/nfp/nfpcore/nfp_cppcore.c @@ -803,8 +803,10 @@ int nfp_cpp_area_cache_add(struct nfp_cp return -ENOMEM; cache = kzalloc(sizeof(*cache), GFP_KERNEL); - if (!cache) + if (!cache) { + nfp_cpp_area_free(area); return -ENOMEM; + } cache->id = 0; cache->addr = 0; Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from niejianglei2021@xxxxxxx are queue-5.15/nfp-fix-memory-leak-in-nfp_cpp_area_cache_add.patch