This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled perf: Fix possible memleak in pmu_dev_alloc() to the 6.1-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: perf-fix-possible-memleak-in-pmu_dev_alloc.patch and it can be found in the queue-6.1 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 0653cde50b6ea3965524a5e2dd9551b66e6b1fd9 Author: Chen Zhongjin <chenzhongjin@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri Nov 11 18:36:53 2022 +0800 perf: Fix possible memleak in pmu_dev_alloc() [ Upstream commit e8d7a90c08ce963c592fb49845f2ccc606a2ac21 ] In pmu_dev_alloc(), when dev_set_name() failed, it will goto free_dev and call put_device(pmu->dev) to release it. However pmu->dev->release is assigned after this, which makes warning and memleak. Call dev_set_name() after pmu->dev->release = pmu_dev_release to fix it. Device '(null)' does not have a release() function... WARNING: CPU: 2 PID: 441 at drivers/base/core.c:2332 device_release+0x1b9/0x240 ... Call Trace: <TASK> kobject_put+0x17f/0x460 put_device+0x20/0x30 pmu_dev_alloc+0x152/0x400 perf_pmu_register+0x96b/0xee0 ... kmemleak: 1 new suspected memory leaks (see /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak) unreferenced object 0xffff888014759000 (size 2048): comm "modprobe", pid 441, jiffies 4294931444 (age 38.332s) backtrace: [<0000000005aed3b4>] kmalloc_trace+0x27/0x110 [<000000006b38f9b8>] pmu_dev_alloc+0x50/0x400 [<00000000735f17be>] perf_pmu_register+0x96b/0xee0 [<00000000e38477f1>] 0xffffffffc0ad8603 [<000000004e162216>] do_one_initcall+0xd0/0x4e0 ... Fixes: abe43400579d ("perf: Sysfs enumeration") Signed-off-by: Chen Zhongjin <chenzhongjin@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221111103653.91058-1-chenzhongjin@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/kernel/events/core.c b/kernel/events/core.c index 7f04f995c975..732b392fc5c6 100644 --- a/kernel/events/core.c +++ b/kernel/events/core.c @@ -11193,13 +11193,15 @@ static int pmu_dev_alloc(struct pmu *pmu) pmu->dev->groups = pmu->attr_groups; device_initialize(pmu->dev); - ret = dev_set_name(pmu->dev, "%s", pmu->name); - if (ret) - goto free_dev; dev_set_drvdata(pmu->dev, pmu); pmu->dev->bus = &pmu_bus; pmu->dev->release = pmu_dev_release; + + ret = dev_set_name(pmu->dev, "%s", pmu->name); + if (ret) + goto free_dev; + ret = device_add(pmu->dev); if (ret) goto free_dev;