This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
MIPS: vpe-cmp: fix possible memory leak while module exiting
to the 5.15-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-cmp-fix-possible-memory-leak-while-module-e.patch
and it can be found in the queue-5.15 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit 5ee47304104bf243a3225758825a248b84da7fb0
Author: Yang Yingliang <yangyingliang@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri Nov 4 11:39:45 2022 +0800
MIPS: vpe-cmp: fix possible memory leak while module exiting
[ Upstream commit c5ed1fe0801f0c66b0fbce2785239a5664629057 ]
dev_set_name() allocates memory for name, 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: 17a1d523aa58 ("MIPS: APRP: Add VPE loader support for CMP platforms.")
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-cmp.c b/arch/mips/kernel/vpe-cmp.c
index e673603e11e5..92140edb3ce3 100644
--- a/arch/mips/kernel/vpe-cmp.c
+++ b/arch/mips/kernel/vpe-cmp.c
@@ -75,7 +75,6 @@ ATTRIBUTE_GROUPS(vpe);
static void vpe_device_release(struct device *cd)
{
- kfree(cd);
}
static struct class vpe_class = {
@@ -157,6 +156,7 @@ int __init vpe_module_init(void)
device_del(&vpe_device);
out_class:
+ put_device(&vpe_device);
class_unregister(&vpe_class);
out_chrdev:
@@ -169,7 +169,7 @@ 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);
