This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled mmc: mmci: fix return value check of mmc_add_host() 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: mmc-mmci-fix-return-value-check-of-mmc_add_host.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 ee9934f7904fd571625c237eaa04d67955fc1b97 Author: Yang Yingliang <yangyingliang@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed Nov 9 21:35:39 2022 +0800 mmc: mmci: fix return value check of mmc_add_host() [ Upstream commit b38a20f29a49ae04d23750d104b25400b792b98c ] mmc_add_host() may return error, if we ignore its return value, it will lead two issues: 1. The memory that allocated in mmc_alloc_host() is leaked. 2. In the remove() path, mmc_remove_host() will be called to delete device, but it's not added yet, it will lead a kernel crash because of null-ptr-deref in device_del(). So fix this by checking the return value and goto error path which will call mmc_free_host(). Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2") Signed-off-by: Yang Yingliang <yangyingliang@xxxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221109133539.3275664-1-yangyingliang@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/mmc/host/mmci.c b/drivers/mmc/host/mmci.c index 3765e2f4ad98..2c4eda83ca18 100644 --- a/drivers/mmc/host/mmci.c +++ b/drivers/mmc/host/mmci.c @@ -2254,7 +2254,9 @@ static int mmci_probe(struct amba_device *dev, pm_runtime_set_autosuspend_delay(&dev->dev, 50); pm_runtime_use_autosuspend(&dev->dev); - mmc_add_host(mmc); + ret = mmc_add_host(mmc); + if (ret) + goto clk_disable; pm_runtime_put(&dev->dev); return 0;