This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled pcmcia: cs: fix possible hung task and memory leak pccardd() to the 5.4-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: pcmcia-cs-fix-possible-hung-task-and-memory-leak-pcc.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.4 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit ecb93740dde08164136a74722816b7ba71c75312 Author: Yang Yingliang <yangyingliang@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Sat Nov 12 17:25:41 2022 +0800 pcmcia: cs: fix possible hung task and memory leak pccardd() [ Upstream commit e3ea1b4847e49234e691c0d66bf030bd65bb7f2b ] If device_register() returns error in pccardd(), it leads two issues: 1. The socket_released has never been completed, it will block pcmcia_unregister_socket(), because of waiting for completion of socket_released. 2. The device name allocated by dev_set_name() is leaked. Fix this two issues by calling put_device() when device_register() fails. socket_released can be completed in pcmcia_release_socket(), the name can be freed in kobject_cleanup(). Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2") Signed-off-by: Yang Yingliang <yangyingliang@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/pcmcia/cs.c b/drivers/pcmcia/cs.c index f70197154a362..820cce7c8b400 100644 --- a/drivers/pcmcia/cs.c +++ b/drivers/pcmcia/cs.c @@ -605,6 +605,7 @@ static int pccardd(void *__skt) dev_warn(&skt->dev, "PCMCIA: unable to register socket\n"); skt->thread = NULL; complete(&skt->thread_done); + put_device(&skt->dev); return 0; } ret = pccard_sysfs_add_socket(&skt->dev);