This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled s390/ctcm: fix potential memory leak to the 5.4-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: s390-ctcm-fix-potential-memory-leak.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.4 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 1d55bb893dc3a9cc0a66c4c270a14b55178b6560 Author: Alexandra Winter <wintera@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue May 10 09:05:07 2022 +0200 s390/ctcm: fix potential memory leak [ Upstream commit 0c0b20587b9f25a2ad14db7f80ebe49bdf29920a ] smatch complains about drivers/s390/net/ctcm_mpc.c:1210 ctcmpc_unpack_skb() warn: possible memory leak of 'mpcginfo' mpc_action_discontact() did not free mpcginfo. Consolidate the freeing in ctcmpc_unpack_skb(). Fixes: 293d984f0e36 ("ctcm: infrastructure for replaced ctc driver") Signed-off-by: Alexandra Winter <wintera@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/s390/net/ctcm_mpc.c b/drivers/s390/net/ctcm_mpc.c index ab316baa8284..d766002bc5be 100644 --- a/drivers/s390/net/ctcm_mpc.c +++ b/drivers/s390/net/ctcm_mpc.c @@ -626,8 +626,6 @@ static void mpc_rcvd_sweep_resp(struct mpcg_info *mpcginfo) ctcm_clear_busy_do(dev); } - kfree(mpcginfo); - return; } @@ -1206,10 +1204,10 @@ static void ctcmpc_unpack_skb(struct channel *ch, struct sk_buff *pskb) CTCM_FUNTAIL, dev->name); priv->stats.rx_dropped++; /* mpcginfo only used for non-data transfers */ - kfree(mpcginfo); if (do_debug_data) ctcmpc_dump_skb(pskb, -8); } + kfree(mpcginfo); } done: @@ -1991,7 +1989,6 @@ static void mpc_action_rcvd_xid0(fsm_instance *fsm, int event, void *arg) } break; } - kfree(mpcginfo); CTCM_PR_DEBUG("ctcmpc:%s() %s xid2:%i xid7:%i xidt_p2:%i \n", __func__, ch->id, grp->outstanding_xid2, @@ -2052,7 +2049,6 @@ static void mpc_action_rcvd_xid7(fsm_instance *fsm, int event, void *arg) mpc_validate_xid(mpcginfo); break; } - kfree(mpcginfo); return; }