This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled pcmcia: ds: fix refcount leak in pcmcia_device_add() to the 6.1-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: pcmcia-ds-fix-refcount-leak-in-pcmcia_device_add.patch and it can be found in the queue-6.1 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 80ebfc0cd7555eb90b540c50c28ba4c999483409 Author: Yang Yingliang <yangyingliang@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Sat Nov 12 17:29:23 2022 +0800 pcmcia: ds: fix refcount leak in pcmcia_device_add() [ Upstream commit 402ab979b29126068e0b596b641422ff7490214c ] As the comment of device_register() says, it should use put_device() to give up the reference in the error path. Then, insofar resources will be freed in pcmcia_release_dev(), the error path is no longer needed. In particular, this means that the (previously missing) dropping of the reference to &p_dev->function_config->ref is now handled by pcmcia_release_dev(). Fixes: 360b65b95bae ("[PATCH] pcmcia: make config_t independent, add reference counting") Signed-off-by: Yang Yingliang <yangyingliang@xxxxxxxxxx> [linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx: simplification, commit message rewrite] Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/pcmcia/ds.c b/drivers/pcmcia/ds.c index ace133b9f7d45..cce4c432d915e 100644 --- a/drivers/pcmcia/ds.c +++ b/drivers/pcmcia/ds.c @@ -573,8 +573,14 @@ static struct pcmcia_device *pcmcia_device_add(struct pcmcia_socket *s, pcmcia_device_query(p_dev); - if (device_register(&p_dev->dev)) - goto err_unreg; + if (device_register(&p_dev->dev)) { + mutex_lock(&s->ops_mutex); + list_del(&p_dev->socket_device_list); + s->device_count--; + mutex_unlock(&s->ops_mutex); + put_device(&p_dev->dev); + return NULL; + } return p_dev;