This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled scsi: fcoe: Fix possible name leak when device_register() fails 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: scsi-fcoe-fix-possible-name-leak-when-device_registe.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 29ed37abea228e48b98c9043e124ae44a95603b7 Author: Yang Yingliang <yangyingliang@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Sat Nov 12 17:43:10 2022 +0800 scsi: fcoe: Fix possible name leak when device_register() fails [ Upstream commit 47b6a122c7b69a876c7ee2fc064a26b09627de9d ] If device_register() returns an error, the name allocated by dev_set_name() needs to be freed. As the comment of device_register() says, one should use put_device() to give up the reference in the error path. Fix this by calling put_device(), then the name can be freed in kobject_cleanup(). The 'fcf' is freed in fcoe_fcf_device_release(), so the kfree() in the error path can be removed. The 'ctlr' is freed in fcoe_ctlr_device_release(), so don't use the error label, just return NULL after calling put_device(). Fixes: 9a74e884ee71 ("[SCSI] libfcoe: Add fcoe_sysfs") Signed-off-by: Yang Yingliang <yangyingliang@xxxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221112094310.3633291-1-yangyingliang@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/scsi/fcoe/fcoe_sysfs.c b/drivers/scsi/fcoe/fcoe_sysfs.c index af658aa38fed..6260aa5ea6af 100644 --- a/drivers/scsi/fcoe/fcoe_sysfs.c +++ b/drivers/scsi/fcoe/fcoe_sysfs.c @@ -830,14 +830,15 @@ struct fcoe_ctlr_device *fcoe_ctlr_device_add(struct device *parent, dev_set_name(&ctlr->dev, "ctlr_%d", ctlr->id); error = device_register(&ctlr->dev); - if (error) - goto out_del_q2; + if (error) { + destroy_workqueue(ctlr->devloss_work_q); + destroy_workqueue(ctlr->work_q); + put_device(&ctlr->dev); + return NULL; + } return ctlr; -out_del_q2: - destroy_workqueue(ctlr->devloss_work_q); - ctlr->devloss_work_q = NULL; out_del_q: destroy_workqueue(ctlr->work_q); ctlr->work_q = NULL; @@ -1036,16 +1037,16 @@ struct fcoe_fcf_device *fcoe_fcf_device_add(struct fcoe_ctlr_device *ctlr, fcf->selected = new_fcf->selected; error = device_register(&fcf->dev); - if (error) - goto out_del; + if (error) { + put_device(&fcf->dev); + goto out; + } fcf->state = FCOE_FCF_STATE_CONNECTED; list_add_tail(&fcf->peers, &ctlr->fcfs); return fcf; -out_del: - kfree(fcf); out: return NULL; }