This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled Bluetooth: Fix memory leak of hci device to the 5.16-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: bluetooth-fix-memory-leak-of-hci-device.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.16 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 60ead507d743c61b983fd1d3c00b5294641cdbb1 Author: Wei Yongjun <weiyongjun1@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed Oct 13 16:55:01 2021 +0800 Bluetooth: Fix memory leak of hci device [ Upstream commit 75d9b8559ac36e059238ee4f8e33cd86086586ba ] Fault injection test reported memory leak of hci device as follows: unreferenced object 0xffff88800b858000 (size 8192): comm "kworker/0:2", pid 167, jiffies 4294955747 (age 557.148s) 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 ad 4e ad de .............N.. backtrace: [<0000000070eb1059>] kmem_cache_alloc_trace mm/slub.c:3208 [<00000000015eb521>] hci_alloc_dev_priv include/linux/slab.h:591 [<00000000dcfc1e21>] bpa10x_probe include/net/bluetooth/hci_core.h:1240 [<000000005d3028c7>] usb_probe_interface drivers/usb/core/driver.c:397 [<00000000cbac9243>] really_probe drivers/base/dd.c:517 [<0000000024cab3f0>] __driver_probe_device drivers/base/dd.c:751 [<00000000202135cb>] driver_probe_device drivers/base/dd.c:782 [<000000000761f2bc>] __device_attach_driver drivers/base/dd.c:899 [<00000000f7d63134>] bus_for_each_drv drivers/base/bus.c:427 [<00000000c9551f0b>] __device_attach drivers/base/dd.c:971 [<000000007f79bd16>] bus_probe_device drivers/base/bus.c:487 [<000000007bb8b95a>] device_add drivers/base/core.c:3364 [<000000009564d9ea>] usb_set_configuration drivers/usb/core/message.c:2171 [<00000000e4657087>] usb_generic_driver_probe drivers/usb/core/generic.c:239 [<0000000071ede518>] usb_probe_device drivers/usb/core/driver.c:294 [<00000000cbac9243>] really_probe drivers/base/dd.c:517 hci_alloc_dev() do not init the device's flag. And hci_free_dev() using put_device() to free the memory allocated for this device, but it calls just put_device(dev) only in case of HCI_UNREGISTER flag is set, So any error handing before hci_register_dev() success will cause memory leak. To avoid this behaviour we can using kfree() to release dev before hci_register_dev() success. Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun <weiyongjun1@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/net/bluetooth/hci_sysfs.c b/net/bluetooth/hci_sysfs.c index 7827639ecf5c3..4e3e0451b08c1 100644 --- a/net/bluetooth/hci_sysfs.c +++ b/net/bluetooth/hci_sysfs.c @@ -86,6 +86,8 @@ static void bt_host_release(struct device *dev) if (hci_dev_test_flag(hdev, HCI_UNREGISTER)) hci_release_dev(hdev); + else + kfree(hdev); module_put(THIS_MODULE); }