This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled rpmsg: virtio: Free driver_override when rpmsg_remove() to the 4.19-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: rpmsg-virtio-free-driver_override-when-rpmsg_remove.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.19 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From d5362c37e1f8a40096452fc201c30e705750e687 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Xiaolei Wang <xiaolei.wang@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2023 10:00:49 +0800 Subject: rpmsg: virtio: Free driver_override when rpmsg_remove() From: Xiaolei Wang <xiaolei.wang@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> commit d5362c37e1f8a40096452fc201c30e705750e687 upstream. Free driver_override when rpmsg_remove(), otherwise the following memory leak will occur: unreferenced object 0xffff0000d55d7080 (size 128): comm "kworker/u8:2", pid 56, jiffies 4294893188 (age 214.272s) hex dump (first 32 bytes): 72 70 6d 73 67 5f 6e 73 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 rpmsg_ns........ 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ backtrace: [<000000009c94c9c1>] __kmem_cache_alloc_node+0x1f8/0x320 [<000000002300d89b>] __kmalloc_node_track_caller+0x44/0x70 [<00000000228a60c3>] kstrndup+0x4c/0x90 [<0000000077158695>] driver_set_override+0xd0/0x164 [<000000003e9c4ea5>] rpmsg_register_device_override+0x98/0x170 [<000000001c0c89a8>] rpmsg_ns_register_device+0x24/0x30 [<000000008bbf8fa2>] rpmsg_probe+0x2e0/0x3ec [<00000000e65a68df>] virtio_dev_probe+0x1c0/0x280 [<00000000443331cc>] really_probe+0xbc/0x2dc [<00000000391064b1>] __driver_probe_device+0x78/0xe0 [<00000000a41c9a5b>] driver_probe_device+0xd8/0x160 [<000000009c3bd5df>] __device_attach_driver+0xb8/0x140 [<0000000043cd7614>] bus_for_each_drv+0x7c/0xd4 [<000000003b929a36>] __device_attach+0x9c/0x19c [<00000000a94e0ba8>] device_initial_probe+0x14/0x20 [<000000003c999637>] bus_probe_device+0xa0/0xac Signed-off-by: Xiaolei Wang <xiaolei.wang@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Fixes: b0b03b811963 ("rpmsg: Release rpmsg devices in backends") Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231215020049.78750-1-xiaolei.wang@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/rpmsg/virtio_rpmsg_bus.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) --- a/drivers/rpmsg/virtio_rpmsg_bus.c +++ b/drivers/rpmsg/virtio_rpmsg_bus.c @@ -381,6 +381,7 @@ static void virtio_rpmsg_release_device( struct rpmsg_device *rpdev = to_rpmsg_device(dev); struct virtio_rpmsg_channel *vch = to_virtio_rpmsg_channel(rpdev); + kfree(rpdev->driver_override); kfree(vch); } Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from xiaolei.wang@xxxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.19/rpmsg-virtio-free-driver_override-when-rpmsg_remove.patch