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 5.4-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-5.4 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 140fd13063afea9ed656a8d0d960f84c5c9ec23d 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 9268ebc0f61e..903c07bdc92d 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);