This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled net: ehea: fix possible memory leak in ehea_register_port() to the 4.19-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: net-ehea-fix-possible-memory-leak-in-ehea_register_p.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.19 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit bf9a03b037bc3dd6c970fe0ca2293d3c7cfe36dd Author: Yang Yingliang <yangyingliang@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue Oct 25 21:00:11 2022 +0800 net: ehea: fix possible memory leak in ehea_register_port() [ Upstream commit 0e7ce23a917a9cc83ca3c779fbba836bca3bcf1e ] If of_device_register() returns error, the of node and the name allocated in dev_set_name() is leaked, call put_device() to give up the reference that was set in device_initialize(), so that of node is put in logical_port_release() and the name is freed in kobject_cleanup(). Fixes: 1acf2318dd13 ("ehea: dynamic add / remove port") Signed-off-by: Yang Yingliang <yangyingliang@xxxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221025130011.1071357-1-yangyingliang@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ehea/ehea_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ehea/ehea_main.c index 5a1fe49030b1..25f579a924d6 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ehea/ehea_main.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ehea/ehea_main.c @@ -2916,6 +2916,7 @@ static struct device *ehea_register_port(struct ehea_port *port, ret = of_device_register(&port->ofdev); if (ret) { pr_err("failed to register device. ret=%d\n", ret); + put_device(&port->ofdev.dev); goto out; }