This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled drm/dp/mst: fix a possible memory leak in fetch_monitor_name() 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: drm-dp-mst-fix-a-possible-memory-leak-in-fetch_monitor_name.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 6e03b13cc7d9427c2c77feed1549191015615202 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Hangyu Hua <hbh25y@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 16 May 2022 11:20:42 +0800 Subject: drm/dp/mst: fix a possible memory leak in fetch_monitor_name() From: Hangyu Hua <hbh25y@xxxxxxxxx> commit 6e03b13cc7d9427c2c77feed1549191015615202 upstream. drm_dp_mst_get_edid call kmemdup to create mst_edid. So mst_edid need to be freed after use. Signed-off-by: Hangyu Hua <hbh25y@xxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Lyude Paul <lyude@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Lyude Paul <lyude@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20220516032042.13166-1-hbh25y@xxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/gpu/drm/drm_dp_mst_topology.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_dp_mst_topology.c +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_dp_mst_topology.c @@ -4834,6 +4834,7 @@ static void fetch_monitor_name(struct dr mst_edid = drm_dp_mst_get_edid(port->connector, mgr, port); drm_edid_get_monitor_name(mst_edid, name, namelen); + kfree(mst_edid); } /** Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from hbh25y@xxxxxxxxx are queue-5.15/drm-dp-mst-fix-a-possible-memory-leak-in-fetch_monitor_name.patch