This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled regulator: core: use kfree_const() to free space conditionally to the 6.0-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: regulator-core-use-kfree_const-to-free-space-conditi.patch and it can be found in the queue-6.0 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit d2db90322b2d8f7336837ca7cc0e30fbec9c57a7 Author: Wang ShaoBo <bobo.shaobowang@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed Nov 23 11:46:16 2022 +0800 regulator: core: use kfree_const() to free space conditionally [ Upstream commit dc8d006d15b623c1d80b90b45d6dcb6e890dad09 ] Use kfree_const() to free supply_name conditionally in create_regulator() as supply_name may be allocated from kmalloc() or directly from .rodata section. Fixes: 87fe29b61f95 ("regulator: push allocations in create_regulator() outside of lock") Signed-off-by: Wang ShaoBo <bobo.shaobowang@xxxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221123034616.3609537-1-bobo.shaobowang@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/regulator/core.c b/drivers/regulator/core.c index afd17b13de7c..b7e7eec1084e 100644 --- a/drivers/regulator/core.c +++ b/drivers/regulator/core.c @@ -1795,7 +1795,7 @@ static struct regulator *create_regulator(struct regulator_dev *rdev, regulator = kzalloc(sizeof(*regulator), GFP_KERNEL); if (regulator == NULL) { - kfree(supply_name); + kfree_const(supply_name); return NULL; }