This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled selftests/efivarfs: create-read: fix a resource leak to the 4.14-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: selftests-efivarfs-create-read-fix-a-resource-leak.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.14 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 91ec29990594cb7e1d4684346abe29580bf792c2 Author: zhujun2 <zhujun2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue Oct 17 18:59:21 2023 -0700 selftests/efivarfs: create-read: fix a resource leak [ Upstream commit 3f6f8a8c5e11a9b384a36df4f40f0c9a653b6975 ] The opened file should be closed in main(), otherwise resource leak will occur that this problem was discovered by code reading Signed-off-by: zhujun2 <zhujun2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Shuah Khan <skhan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/efivarfs/create-read.c b/tools/testing/selftests/efivarfs/create-read.c index 9674a19396a32..7bc7af4eb2c17 100644 --- a/tools/testing/selftests/efivarfs/create-read.c +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/efivarfs/create-read.c @@ -32,8 +32,10 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv) rc = read(fd, buf, sizeof(buf)); if (rc != 0) { fprintf(stderr, "Reading a new var should return EOF\n"); + close(fd); return EXIT_FAILURE; } + close(fd); return EXIT_SUCCESS; }