This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled nfc: st-nci: fix memory leaks in EVT_TRANSACTION 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: nfc-st-nci-fix-memory-leaks-in-evt_transaction.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 17cd47e85857d7b40159cb5cd39e82d51a7bfc25 Author: Martin Faltesek <mfaltesek@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon Nov 21 18:42:45 2022 -0600 nfc: st-nci: fix memory leaks in EVT_TRANSACTION [ Upstream commit 440f2ae9c9f06e26f5dcea697a53717fc61a318c ] Error path does not free previously allocated memory. Add devm_kfree() to the failure path. Reported-by: Denis Efremov <denis.e.efremov@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Guenter Roeck <groeck@xxxxxxxxxx> Fixes: 5d1ceb7f5e56 ("NFC: st21nfcb: Add HCI transaction event support") Signed-off-by: Martin Faltesek <mfaltesek@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/nfc/st-nci/se.c b/drivers/nfc/st-nci/se.c index e75929ff330e..b1d23b35aac4 100644 --- a/drivers/nfc/st-nci/se.c +++ b/drivers/nfc/st-nci/se.c @@ -352,8 +352,10 @@ static int st_nci_hci_connectivity_event_received(struct nci_dev *ndev, /* Check next byte is PARAMETERS tag (82) */ if (skb->data[transaction->aid_len + 2] != - NFC_EVT_TRANSACTION_PARAMS_TAG) + NFC_EVT_TRANSACTION_PARAMS_TAG) { + devm_kfree(dev, transaction); return -EPROTO; + } transaction->params_len = skb->data[transaction->aid_len + 3]; memcpy(transaction->params, skb->data +