This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled usb: usbip: fix a refcount leak in stub_probe() 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: usb-usbip-fix-a-refcount-leak-in-stub_probe.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. commit 36f0b52f85aaaff20bedc7cdeaeded858bc9cdea Author: Hangyu Hua <hbh25y@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue Apr 12 10:02:57 2022 +0800 usb: usbip: fix a refcount leak in stub_probe() [ Upstream commit 9ec4cbf1cc55d126759051acfe328d489c5d6e60 ] usb_get_dev() is called in stub_device_alloc(). When stub_probe() fails after that, usb_put_dev() needs to be called to release the reference. Fix this by moving usb_put_dev() to sdev_free error path handling. Find this by code review. Fixes: 3ff67445750a ("usbip: fix error handling in stub_probe()") Reviewed-by: Shuah Khan <skhan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Hangyu Hua <hbh25y@xxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220412020257.9767-1-hbh25y@xxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/usb/usbip/stub_dev.c b/drivers/usb/usbip/stub_dev.c index d8d3892e5a69..3c6d452e3bf4 100644 --- a/drivers/usb/usbip/stub_dev.c +++ b/drivers/usb/usbip/stub_dev.c @@ -393,7 +393,6 @@ static int stub_probe(struct usb_device *udev) err_port: dev_set_drvdata(&udev->dev, NULL); - usb_put_dev(udev); /* we already have busid_priv, just lock busid_lock */ spin_lock(&busid_priv->busid_lock); @@ -408,6 +407,7 @@ static int stub_probe(struct usb_device *udev) put_busid_priv(busid_priv); sdev_free: + usb_put_dev(udev); stub_device_free(sdev); return rc;