This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled misc: tifm: fix possible memory leak in tifm_7xx1_switch_media() to the 4.19-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-tifm-fix-possible-memory-leak-in-tifm_7xx1_swit.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.19 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 8544e32339c83fa177c89482353b92e28959ddaa Author: ruanjinjie <ruanjinjie@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu Nov 17 14:47:25 2022 +0800 misc: tifm: fix possible memory leak in tifm_7xx1_switch_media() [ Upstream commit fd2c930cf6a5b9176382c15f9acb1996e76e25ad ] If device_register() returns error in tifm_7xx1_switch_media(), name of kobject which is allocated in dev_set_name() called in device_add() is leaked. Never directly free @dev after calling device_register(), even if it returned an error! Always use put_device() to give up the reference initialized. Fixes: 2428a8fe2261 ("tifm: move common device management tasks from tifm_7xx1 to tifm_core") Signed-off-by: ruanjinjie <ruanjinjie@xxxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221117064725.3478402-1-ruanjinjie@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/misc/tifm_7xx1.c b/drivers/misc/tifm_7xx1.c index 9ac95b48ef92..1d33c4facd44 100644 --- a/drivers/misc/tifm_7xx1.c +++ b/drivers/misc/tifm_7xx1.c @@ -194,7 +194,7 @@ static void tifm_7xx1_switch_media(struct work_struct *work) spin_unlock_irqrestore(&fm->lock, flags); } if (sock) - tifm_free_device(&sock->dev); + put_device(&sock->dev); } spin_lock_irqsave(&fm->lock, flags); }