This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled NFC: st21nfca: Fix memory leak in device probe and remove to the 5.10-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: nfc-st21nfca-fix-memory-leak-in-device-probe-and-rem.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.10 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit feba834abeec4196e46d26648962af05e697d87b Author: Wei Yongjun <weiyongjun1@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue Dec 28 12:48:11 2021 +0000 NFC: st21nfca: Fix memory leak in device probe and remove [ Upstream commit 1b9dadba502234eea7244879b8d5d126bfaf9f0c ] 'phy->pending_skb' is alloced when device probe, but forgot to free in the error handling path and remove path, this cause memory leak as follows: unreferenced object 0xffff88800bc06800 (size 512): comm "8", pid 11775, jiffies 4295159829 (age 9.032s) hex dump (first 32 bytes): 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ backtrace: [<00000000d66c09ce>] __kmalloc_node_track_caller+0x1ed/0x450 [<00000000c93382b3>] kmalloc_reserve+0x37/0xd0 [<000000005fea522c>] __alloc_skb+0x124/0x380 [<0000000019f29f9a>] st21nfca_hci_i2c_probe+0x170/0x8f2 Fix it by freeing 'pending_skb' in error and remove. Fixes: 68957303f44a ("NFC: ST21NFCA: Add driver for STMicroelectronics ST21NFCA NFC Chip") Reported-by: Hulk Robot <hulkci@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun <weiyongjun1@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/nfc/st21nfca/i2c.c b/drivers/nfc/st21nfca/i2c.c index 23ed11f91213d..6ea59426ab0bf 100644 --- a/drivers/nfc/st21nfca/i2c.c +++ b/drivers/nfc/st21nfca/i2c.c @@ -533,7 +533,8 @@ static int st21nfca_hci_i2c_probe(struct i2c_client *client, phy->gpiod_ena = devm_gpiod_get(dev, "enable", GPIOD_OUT_LOW); if (IS_ERR(phy->gpiod_ena)) { nfc_err(dev, "Unable to get ENABLE GPIO\n"); - return PTR_ERR(phy->gpiod_ena); + r = PTR_ERR(phy->gpiod_ena); + goto out_free; } phy->se_status.is_ese_present = @@ -544,7 +545,7 @@ static int st21nfca_hci_i2c_probe(struct i2c_client *client, r = st21nfca_hci_platform_init(phy); if (r < 0) { nfc_err(&client->dev, "Unable to reboot st21nfca\n"); - return r; + goto out_free; } r = devm_request_threaded_irq(&client->dev, client->irq, NULL, @@ -553,15 +554,23 @@ static int st21nfca_hci_i2c_probe(struct i2c_client *client, ST21NFCA_HCI_DRIVER_NAME, phy); if (r < 0) { nfc_err(&client->dev, "Unable to register IRQ handler\n"); - return r; + goto out_free; } - return st21nfca_hci_probe(phy, &i2c_phy_ops, LLC_SHDLC_NAME, - ST21NFCA_FRAME_HEADROOM, - ST21NFCA_FRAME_TAILROOM, - ST21NFCA_HCI_LLC_MAX_PAYLOAD, - &phy->hdev, - &phy->se_status); + r = st21nfca_hci_probe(phy, &i2c_phy_ops, LLC_SHDLC_NAME, + ST21NFCA_FRAME_HEADROOM, + ST21NFCA_FRAME_TAILROOM, + ST21NFCA_HCI_LLC_MAX_PAYLOAD, + &phy->hdev, + &phy->se_status); + if (r) + goto out_free; + + return 0; + +out_free: + kfree_skb(phy->pending_skb); + return r; } static int st21nfca_hci_i2c_remove(struct i2c_client *client) @@ -574,6 +583,8 @@ static int st21nfca_hci_i2c_remove(struct i2c_client *client) if (phy->powered) st21nfca_hci_i2c_disable(phy); + if (phy->pending_skb) + kfree_skb(phy->pending_skb); return 0; }