This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled ubi: Fix unreferenced object reported by kmemleak in ubi_resize_volume() 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: ubi-fix-unreferenced-object-reported-by-kmemleak-in-.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 22bbc07ee034402d753905740f62c02924ad64c0 Author: Li Zetao <lizetao1@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri Oct 21 18:21:57 2022 +0800 ubi: Fix unreferenced object reported by kmemleak in ubi_resize_volume() [ Upstream commit 1e591ea072df7211f64542a09482b5f81cb3ad27 ] There is a memory leaks problem reported by kmemleak: unreferenced object 0xffff888102007a00 (size 128): comm "ubirsvol", pid 32090, jiffies 4298464136 (age 2361.231s) hex dump (first 32 bytes): ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ................ ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ................ backtrace: [<ffffffff8176cecd>] __kmalloc+0x4d/0x150 [<ffffffffa02a9a36>] ubi_eba_create_table+0x76/0x170 [ubi] [<ffffffffa029764e>] ubi_resize_volume+0x1be/0xbc0 [ubi] [<ffffffffa02a3321>] ubi_cdev_ioctl+0x701/0x1850 [ubi] [<ffffffff81975d2d>] __x64_sys_ioctl+0x11d/0x170 [<ffffffff83c142a5>] do_syscall_64+0x35/0x80 [<ffffffff83e0006a>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x46/0xb0 This is due to a mismatch between create and destroy interfaces, and in detail that "new_eba_tbl" created by ubi_eba_create_table() but destroyed by kfree(), while will causing "new_eba_tbl->entries" not freed. Fix it by replacing kfree(new_eba_tbl) with ubi_eba_destroy_table(new_eba_tbl) Fixes: 799dca34ac54 ("UBI: hide EBA internals") Signed-off-by: Li Zetao <lizetao1@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Zhihao Cheng <chengzhihao1@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@xxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/mtd/ubi/vmt.c b/drivers/mtd/ubi/vmt.c index 6c7822c1cc451..2e5bd473e5e25 100644 --- a/drivers/mtd/ubi/vmt.c +++ b/drivers/mtd/ubi/vmt.c @@ -515,7 +515,7 @@ int ubi_resize_volume(struct ubi_volume_desc *desc, int reserved_pebs) return err; out_free: - kfree(new_eba_tbl); + ubi_eba_destroy_table(new_eba_tbl); return err; }