This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled PCI: endpoint: Fix double free in __pci_epc_create() to the 6.5-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: pci-endpoint-fix-double-free-in-__pci_epc_create.patch and it can be found in the queue-6.5 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit c1dd921c24ed966770053bfa3a93ca5c693e1414 Author: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed Oct 25 14:57:23 2023 +0300 PCI: endpoint: Fix double free in __pci_epc_create() [ Upstream commit c9501d268944d6c0475ecb3e740a084a7da9cbfe ] The pci_epc_release() function frees "epc" so the kfree() on the next line is a double free. Drop the redundant free. Fixes: 7711cbb4862a ("PCI: endpoint: Fix WARN() when an endpoint driver is removed") Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/2ce68694-87a7-4c06-b8a4-9870c891b580@moroto.mountain Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Manivannan Sadhasivam <manivannan.sadhasivam@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/pci/endpoint/pci-epc-core.c b/drivers/pci/endpoint/pci-epc-core.c index 6c54fa5684d22..575d67271ccc1 100644 --- a/drivers/pci/endpoint/pci-epc-core.c +++ b/drivers/pci/endpoint/pci-epc-core.c @@ -870,7 +870,6 @@ __pci_epc_create(struct device *dev, const struct pci_epc_ops *ops, put_dev: put_device(&epc->dev); - kfree(epc); err_ret: return ERR_PTR(ret);