This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled scsi: core: 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-core-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 04b5b5cb0136ce970333a9c6cec7e46adba1ea3a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Zhu Wang <wangzhu9@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2023 10:02:30 +0800 Subject: scsi: core: Fix possible memory leak if device_add() fails From: Zhu Wang <wangzhu9@xxxxxxxxxx> commit 04b5b5cb0136ce970333a9c6cec7e46adba1ea3a 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 decrease the reference count in the error path. So fix this by calling put_device(), then the name can be freed in kobject_cleanp(). Fixes: ee959b00c335 ("SCSI: convert struct class_device to struct device") Signed-off-by: Zhu Wang <wangzhu9@xxxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230803020230.226903-1-wangzhu9@xxxxxxxxxx Reviewed-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/scsi/raid_class.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) --- a/drivers/scsi/raid_class.c +++ b/drivers/scsi/raid_class.c @@ -248,6 +248,7 @@ int raid_component_add(struct raid_templ return 0; err_out: + put_device(&rc->dev); list_del(&rc->node); rd->component_count--; put_device(component_dev); 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