This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled HSI: omap_ssi_core: fix possible memory leak in ssi_probe() 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: hsi-omap_ssi_core-fix-possible-memory-leak-in-ssi_pr.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 cd2d1600f6b7bee04c2ae5e0a116780789bac216 Author: Yang Yingliang <yangyingliang@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon Oct 31 15:43:37 2022 +0800 HSI: omap_ssi_core: fix possible memory leak in ssi_probe() [ Upstream commit 1aff514e1d2bd47854dbbdf867970b9d463d4c57 ] If ssi_add_controller() returns error, it should call hsi_put_controller() to give up the reference that was set in hsi_alloc_controller(), so that it can call hsi_controller_release() to free controller and ports that allocated in hsi_alloc_controller(). Fixes: b209e047bc74 ("HSI: Introduce OMAP SSI driver") Signed-off-by: Yang Yingliang <yangyingliang@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sebastian Reichel <sebastian.reichel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/hsi/controllers/omap_ssi_core.c b/drivers/hsi/controllers/omap_ssi_core.c index b91a6b6c0d7a..2f1a576fa8b7 100644 --- a/drivers/hsi/controllers/omap_ssi_core.c +++ b/drivers/hsi/controllers/omap_ssi_core.c @@ -538,8 +538,10 @@ static int ssi_probe(struct platform_device *pd) platform_set_drvdata(pd, ssi); err = ssi_add_controller(ssi, pd); - if (err < 0) + if (err < 0) { + hsi_put_controller(ssi); goto out1; + } pm_runtime_enable(&pd->dev);