This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled yam: fix a memory leak in yam_siocdevprivate() 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: yam-fix-a-memory-leak-in-yam_siocdevprivate.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. commit 50323c79623a664b1f9da6303267078431f3334b Author: Hangyu Hua <hbh25y@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon Jan 24 11:29:54 2022 +0800 yam: fix a memory leak in yam_siocdevprivate() [ Upstream commit 29eb31542787e1019208a2e1047bb7c76c069536 ] ym needs to be free when ym->cmd != SIOCYAMSMCS. Fixes: 0781168e23a2 ("yam: fix a missing-check bug") Signed-off-by: Hangyu Hua <hbh25y@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/net/hamradio/yam.c b/drivers/net/hamradio/yam.c index 6ddacbdb224ba..528d57a435394 100644 --- a/drivers/net/hamradio/yam.c +++ b/drivers/net/hamradio/yam.c @@ -950,9 +950,7 @@ static int yam_siocdevprivate(struct net_device *dev, struct ifreq *ifr, void __ ym = memdup_user(data, sizeof(struct yamdrv_ioctl_mcs)); if (IS_ERR(ym)) return PTR_ERR(ym); - if (ym->cmd != SIOCYAMSMCS) - return -EINVAL; - if (ym->bitrate > YAM_MAXBITRATE) { + if (ym->cmd != SIOCYAMSMCS || ym->bitrate > YAM_MAXBITRATE) { kfree(ym); return -EINVAL; }