This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled nvme-pci: fixing memory leak in probe teardown path to the 6.2-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: nvme-pci-fixing-memory-leak-in-probe-teardown-path.patch and it can be found in the queue-6.2 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 860bef73f1b1ac8f1e4fc9b878215fe33a1799ae Author: Irvin Cote <irvincoteg@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed Mar 8 18:05:08 2023 -0300 nvme-pci: fixing memory leak in probe teardown path [ Upstream commit a61d265533b7fe0026a02a49916aa564ffe38e4c ] In case the nvme_probe teardown path is triggered the ctrl ref count does not reach 0 thus creating a memory leak upon failure of nvme_probe. Signed-off-by: Irvin Cote <irvincoteg@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/nvme/host/pci.c b/drivers/nvme/host/pci.c index 29c902b9aecbd..c51ebbee8103e 100644 --- a/drivers/nvme/host/pci.c +++ b/drivers/nvme/host/pci.c @@ -3126,6 +3126,7 @@ static int nvme_probe(struct pci_dev *pdev, const struct pci_device_id *id) nvme_dev_unmap(dev); out_uninit_ctrl: nvme_uninit_ctrl(&dev->ctrl); + nvme_put_ctrl(&dev->ctrl); return result; }