This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled MIPS: vpe-mt: fix possible memory leak while module exiting 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: mips-vpe-mt-fix-possible-memory-leak-while-module-ex.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 12f1390646ef7e17d83abd07fbfd74708bc067e5 Author: Yang Yingliang <yangyingliang@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri Nov 4 11:39:44 2022 +0800 MIPS: vpe-mt: fix possible memory leak while module exiting [ Upstream commit 5822e8cc84ee37338ab0bdc3124f6eec04dc232d ] Afer commit 1fa5ae857bb1 ("driver core: get rid of struct device's bus_id string array"), the name of device is allocated dynamically, it need be freed when module exiting, call put_device() to give up reference, so that it can be freed in kobject_cleanup() when the refcount hit to 0. The vpe_device is static, so remove kfree() from vpe_device_release(). Fixes: 1fa5ae857bb1 ("driver core: get rid of struct device's bus_id string array") Signed-off-by: Yang Yingliang <yangyingliang@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/arch/mips/kernel/vpe-mt.c b/arch/mips/kernel/vpe-mt.c index bad6b0891b2b..84a82b551ec3 100644 --- a/arch/mips/kernel/vpe-mt.c +++ b/arch/mips/kernel/vpe-mt.c @@ -313,7 +313,6 @@ ATTRIBUTE_GROUPS(vpe); static void vpe_device_release(struct device *cd) { - kfree(cd); } static struct class vpe_class = { @@ -497,6 +496,7 @@ int __init vpe_module_init(void) device_del(&vpe_device); out_class: + put_device(&vpe_device); class_unregister(&vpe_class); out_chrdev: @@ -509,7 +509,7 @@ void __exit vpe_module_exit(void) { struct vpe *v, *n; - device_del(&vpe_device); + device_unregister(&vpe_device); class_unregister(&vpe_class); unregister_chrdev(major, VPE_MODULE_NAME);