This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled ALSA: ac97: fix possible memory leak in snd_ac97_dev_register() 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: alsa-ac97-fix-possible-memory-leak-in-snd_ac97_dev_r.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 b32a7585ee0a536bcce068239aa7830b49c994c0 Author: Yang Yingliang <yangyingliang@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed Oct 19 17:30:25 2022 +0800 ALSA: ac97: fix possible memory leak in snd_ac97_dev_register() [ Upstream commit 4881bda5ea05c8c240fc8afeaa928e2bc43f61fa ] If device_register() fails in snd_ac97_dev_register(), it should call put_device() to give up reference, or the name allocated in dev_set_name() is leaked. Fixes: 0ca06a00e206 ("[ALSA] AC97 bus interface for ad-hoc drivers") Signed-off-by: Yang Yingliang <yangyingliang@xxxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221019093025.1179475-1-yangyingliang@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/sound/pci/ac97/ac97_codec.c b/sound/pci/ac97/ac97_codec.c index cb60a07d39a8..ceead55f13ab 100644 --- a/sound/pci/ac97/ac97_codec.c +++ b/sound/pci/ac97/ac97_codec.c @@ -2009,6 +2009,7 @@ static int snd_ac97_dev_register(struct snd_device *device) err = device_register(&ac97->dev); if (err < 0) { ac97_err(ac97, "Can't register ac97 bus\n"); + put_device(&ac97->dev); ac97->dev.bus = NULL; return err; }