This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled misc: ocxl: fix possible name leak in ocxl_file_register_afu() 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: misc-ocxl-fix-possible-name-leak-in-ocxl_file_regist.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 698cb7c21f18d14f23e77ed4ffd347c45301a067 Author: Yang Yingliang <yangyingliang@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri Nov 11 22:59:29 2022 +0800 misc: ocxl: fix possible name leak in ocxl_file_register_afu() [ Upstream commit a4cb1004aeed2ab893a058fad00a5b41a12c4691 ] If device_register() returns error in ocxl_file_register_afu(), 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 info is freed in info_release(). Fixes: 75ca758adbaf ("ocxl: Create a clear delineation between ocxl backend & frontend") Signed-off-by: Yang Yingliang <yangyingliang@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Andrew Donnellan <ajd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Frederic Barrat <fbarrat@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221111145929.2429271-1-yangyingliang@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/misc/ocxl/file.c b/drivers/misc/ocxl/file.c index d46dba2df5a1..452d5777a0e4 100644 --- a/drivers/misc/ocxl/file.c +++ b/drivers/misc/ocxl/file.c @@ -541,8 +541,11 @@ int ocxl_file_register_afu(struct ocxl_afu *afu) goto err_put; rc = device_register(&info->dev); - if (rc) - goto err_put; + if (rc) { + free_minor(info); + put_device(&info->dev); + return rc; + } rc = ocxl_sysfs_register_afu(info); if (rc)