This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
scsi: snic: Fix possible memory leak if device_add() fails
to the 6.4-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:
scsi-snic-fix-possible-memory-leak-if-device_add-fails.patch
and it can be found in the queue-6.4 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 41320b18a0e0dfb236dba4edb9be12dba1878156 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Zhu Wang <wangzhu9@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2023 19:14:21 +0800
Subject: scsi: snic: Fix possible memory leak if device_add() fails
From: Zhu Wang <wangzhu9@xxxxxxxxxx>
commit 41320b18a0e0dfb236dba4edb9be12dba1878156 upstream.
If device_add() returns error, the name allocated by dev_set_name() needs
be freed. As the comment of device_add() says, put_device() should be used
to give up the reference in the error path. So fix this by calling
put_device(), then the name can be freed in kobject_cleanp().
Fixes: c8806b6c9e82 ("snic: driver for Cisco SCSI HBA")
Signed-off-by: Zhu Wang <wangzhu9@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Narsimhulu Musini <nmusini@xxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230801111421.63651-1-wangzhu9@xxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/scsi/snic/snic_disc.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
--- a/drivers/scsi/snic/snic_disc.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/snic/snic_disc.c
@@ -303,6 +303,7 @@ snic_tgt_create(struct snic *snic, struc
"Snic Tgt: device_add, with err = %d\n",
ret);
+ put_device(&tgt->dev);
put_device(&snic->shost->shost_gendev);
spin_lock_irqsave(snic->shost->host_lock, flags);
list_del(&tgt->list);
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from wangzhu9@xxxxxxxxxx are
queue-6.4/scsi-snic-fix-possible-memory-leak-if-device_add-fails.patch
queue-6.4/scsi-core-fix-possible-memory-leak-if-device_add-fails.patch
