This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled tee: optee: fix possible memory leak in optee_register_device() 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: tee-optee-fix-possible-memory-leak-in-optee_register.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 65e10427888380aa71e8110b8a01296fbcc8bad6 Author: Yang Yingliang <yangyingliang@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed Nov 9 22:01:24 2022 +0800 tee: optee: fix possible memory leak in optee_register_device() [ Upstream commit cce616e012c215d65c15e5d1afa73182dea49389 ] If device_register() returns error in optee_register_device(), the name allocated by dev_set_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(), and optee_device is freed in optee_release_device(). Fixes: c3fa24af9244 ("tee: optee: add TEE bus device enumeration support") Signed-off-by: Yang Yingliang <yangyingliang@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Sumit Garg <sumit.garg@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jens Wiklander <jens.wiklander@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/tee/optee/device.c b/drivers/tee/optee/device.c index f3947be13e2e..64f0e047c23d 100644 --- a/drivers/tee/optee/device.c +++ b/drivers/tee/optee/device.c @@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ static int optee_register_device(const uuid_t *device_uuid) rc = device_register(&optee_device->dev); if (rc) { pr_err("device registration failed, err: %d\n", rc); - kfree(optee_device); + put_device(&optee_device->dev); } return rc;