This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled HID: hyperv: fix possible memory leak in mousevsc_probe() to the 6.0-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: hid-hyperv-fix-possible-memory-leak-in-mousevsc_prob.patch and it can be found in the queue-6.0 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit e34fb18739d90e0b7c57208638e9c3418732b217 Author: Yang Yingliang <yangyingliang@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri Oct 28 21:40:43 2022 +0800 HID: hyperv: fix possible memory leak in mousevsc_probe() [ Upstream commit b5bcb94b0954a026bbd671741fdb00e7141f9c91 ] If hid_add_device() returns error, it should call hid_destroy_device() to free hid_dev which is allocated in hid_allocate_device(). Fixes: 74c4fb058083 ("HID: hv_mouse: Properly add the hid device") Signed-off-by: Yang Yingliang <yangyingliang@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/hid/hid-hyperv.c b/drivers/hid/hid-hyperv.c index e0bc73124196..ab57b49a44ed 100644 --- a/drivers/hid/hid-hyperv.c +++ b/drivers/hid/hid-hyperv.c @@ -499,7 +499,7 @@ static int mousevsc_probe(struct hv_device *device, ret = hid_add_device(hid_dev); if (ret) - goto probe_err1; + goto probe_err2; ret = hid_parse(hid_dev);