This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled thermal/core: Fix memory leak in the error path 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: thermal-core-fix-memory-leak-in-the-error-path.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. >From d44616c6cc3e35eea03ecfe9040edfa2b486a059 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2021 21:22:57 +0100 Subject: thermal/core: Fix memory leak in the error path From: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@xxxxxxxxxx> commit d44616c6cc3e35eea03ecfe9040edfa2b486a059 upstream. Fix the following error: smatch warnings: drivers/thermal/thermal_core.c:1020 __thermal_cooling_device_register() warn: possible memory leak of 'cdev' by freeing the cdev when exiting the function in the error path. Fixes: 584837618100 ("thermal/drivers/core: Use a char pointer for the cooling device name") Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@xxxxxxxxx> Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@xxxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210319202257.890848-1-daniel.lezcano@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/thermal/thermal_core.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) --- a/drivers/thermal/thermal_core.c +++ b/drivers/thermal/thermal_core.c @@ -1152,6 +1152,7 @@ out_kfree_type: out_ida_remove: ida_simple_remove(&thermal_cdev_ida, id); out_kfree_cdev: + kfree(cdev); return ERR_PTR(ret); } Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from daniel.lezcano@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-5.10/thermal-drivers-broadcom-fix-potential-null-derefere.patch queue-5.10/thermal-core-fix-memory-leak-in-the-error-path.patch queue-5.10/thermal-drivers-bcm2711-don-t-clamp-temperature-at-z.patch queue-5.10/thermal-core-fix-memory-leak-in-__thermal_cooling_de.patch queue-5.10/thermal-core-fix-a-uaf-bug-in-__thermal_cooling_device_register.patch queue-5.10/thermal-drivers-imx_sc_thermal-fix-refcount-leak-in-.patch queue-5.10/thermal-drivers-core-use-a-char-pointer-for-the-cool.patch