This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled mISDN: fix possible memory leak in mISDN_dsp_element_register() to the 5.4-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: misdn-fix-possible-memory-leak-in-misdn_dsp_element_.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.4 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 17303439747a06b973390fb0113382ed6dcf53aa Author: Yang Yingliang <yangyingliang@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed Nov 9 21:28:32 2022 +0800 mISDN: fix possible memory leak in mISDN_dsp_element_register() [ Upstream commit 98a2ac1ca8fd6eca6867726fe238d06e75eb1acd ] Afer commit 1fa5ae857bb1 ("driver core: get rid of struct device's bus_id string array"), the name of device is allocated dynamically, use put_device() to give up the reference, so that the name can be freed in kobject_cleanup() when the refcount is 0. The 'entry' is going to be freed in mISDN_dsp_dev_release(), so the kfree() is removed. list_del() is called in mISDN_dsp_dev_release(), so it need be initialized. Fixes: 1fa5ae857bb1 ("driver core: get rid of struct device's bus_id string array") Signed-off-by: Yang Yingliang <yangyingliang@xxxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221109132832.3270119-1-yangyingliang@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/isdn/mISDN/dsp_pipeline.c b/drivers/isdn/mISDN/dsp_pipeline.c index 40588692cec7..cd9bc11e8dfb 100644 --- a/drivers/isdn/mISDN/dsp_pipeline.c +++ b/drivers/isdn/mISDN/dsp_pipeline.c @@ -80,6 +80,7 @@ int mISDN_dsp_element_register(struct mISDN_dsp_element *elem) if (!entry) return -ENOMEM; + INIT_LIST_HEAD(&entry->list); entry->elem = elem; entry->dev.class = elements_class; @@ -114,7 +115,7 @@ int mISDN_dsp_element_register(struct mISDN_dsp_element *elem) device_unregister(&entry->dev); return ret; err1: - kfree(entry); + put_device(&entry->dev); return ret; } EXPORT_SYMBOL(mISDN_dsp_element_register);