This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled xen/pcpu: fix possible memory leak in register_pcpu() to the 4.14-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: xen-pcpu-fix-possible-memory-leak-in-register_pcpu.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.14 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 83e787b5832708ca123f07ec1aab7806f2ceff0f Author: Yang Yingliang <yangyingliang@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu Nov 10 23:24:41 2022 +0800 xen/pcpu: fix possible memory leak in register_pcpu() [ Upstream commit da36a2a76b01b210ffaa55cdc2c99bc8783697c5 ] In device_add(), dev_set_name() is called to allocate name, if it returns error, the name need be freed. As comment of device_register() says, it should use put_device() to give up the reference in the error path. So fix this by calling put_device(), then the name can be freed in kobject_cleanup(). Fixes: f65c9bb3fb72 ("xen/pcpu: Xen physical cpus online/offline sys interface") Signed-off-by: Yang Yingliang <yangyingliang@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@xxxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221110152441.401630-1-yangyingliang@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@xxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/xen/pcpu.c b/drivers/xen/pcpu.c index cdc6daa7a9f6..9cf7085a260b 100644 --- a/drivers/xen/pcpu.c +++ b/drivers/xen/pcpu.c @@ -228,7 +228,7 @@ static int register_pcpu(struct pcpu *pcpu) err = device_register(dev); if (err) { - pcpu_release(dev); + put_device(dev); return err; }