This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled md/raid10: fix memleak of md thread to the 5.10-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: md-raid10-fix-memleak-of-md-thread.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.10 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 27b907e7eba53ab9bfa71d5875806d9b10093b9f Author: Yu Kuai <yukuai3@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri Mar 10 15:38:55 2023 +0800 md/raid10: fix memleak of md thread [ Upstream commit f0ddb83da3cbbf8a1f9087a642c448ff52ee9abd ] In raid10_run(), if setup_conf() succeed and raid10_run() failed before setting 'mddev->thread', then in the error path 'conf->thread' is not freed. Fix the problem by setting 'mddev->thread' right after setup_conf(). Fixes: 43a521238aca ("md-cluster: choose correct label when clustered layout is not supported") Signed-off-by: Yu Kuai <yukuai3@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Song Liu <song@xxxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230310073855.1337560-7-yukuai1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/md/raid10.c b/drivers/md/raid10.c index 51f122db9668e..c6a196a10f894 100644 --- a/drivers/md/raid10.c +++ b/drivers/md/raid10.c @@ -3752,6 +3752,9 @@ static int raid10_run(struct mddev *mddev) if (!conf) goto out; + mddev->thread = conf->thread; + conf->thread = NULL; + if (mddev_is_clustered(conf->mddev)) { int fc, fo; @@ -3764,9 +3767,6 @@ static int raid10_run(struct mddev *mddev) } } - mddev->thread = conf->thread; - conf->thread = NULL; - if (mddev->queue) { blk_queue_max_discard_sectors(mddev->queue, mddev->chunk_sectors);