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 4.9-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-4.9 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit adec2afe027c466389941a2901de079fd9040f05
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;
}
