This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled NTB: fix possible name leak in ntb_register_device() to the 5.15-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: ntb-fix-possible-name-leak-in-ntb_register_device.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.15 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit c070f93cc6f7b0fae87a4306d84b11e3cbfa1146 Author: Yang Yingliang <yangyingliang@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri Dec 1 11:30:56 2023 +0800 NTB: fix possible name leak in ntb_register_device() [ Upstream commit aebfdfe39b9327a3077d0df8db3beb3160c9bdd0 ] If device_register() fails in ntb_register_device(), the device name allocated by dev_set_name() should be freed. As per the comment in device_register(), callers should use put_device() to give up the reference in the error path. So fix this by calling put_device() in the error path so that the name can be freed in kobject_cleanup(). As a result of this, put_device() in the error path of ntb_register_device() is removed and the actual error is returned. Fixes: a1bd3baeb2f1 ("NTB: Add NTB hardware abstraction layer") Signed-off-by: Yang Yingliang <yangyingliang@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Manivannan Sadhasivam <manivannan.sadhasivam@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@xxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231201033057.1399131-1-yangyingliang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mani: reworded commit message] Signed-off-by: Manivannan Sadhasivam <manivannan.sadhasivam@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/ntb/core.c b/drivers/ntb/core.c index 27dd93deff6e5..d702bee780826 100644 --- a/drivers/ntb/core.c +++ b/drivers/ntb/core.c @@ -100,6 +100,8 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(ntb_unregister_client); int ntb_register_device(struct ntb_dev *ntb) { + int ret; + if (!ntb) return -EINVAL; if (!ntb->pdev) @@ -120,7 +122,11 @@ int ntb_register_device(struct ntb_dev *ntb) ntb->ctx_ops = NULL; spin_lock_init(&ntb->ctx_lock); - return device_register(&ntb->dev); + ret = device_register(&ntb->dev); + if (ret) + put_device(&ntb->dev); + + return ret; } EXPORT_SYMBOL(ntb_register_device); diff --git a/drivers/pci/endpoint/functions/pci-epf-vntb.c b/drivers/pci/endpoint/functions/pci-epf-vntb.c index 138742af51707..d4cd4bd4a0881 100644 --- a/drivers/pci/endpoint/functions/pci-epf-vntb.c +++ b/drivers/pci/endpoint/functions/pci-epf-vntb.c @@ -1242,15 +1242,11 @@ static int pci_vntb_probe(struct pci_dev *pdev, const struct pci_device_id *id) ret = ntb_register_device(&ndev->ntb); if (ret) { dev_err(dev, "Failed to register NTB device\n"); - goto err_register_dev; + return ret; } dev_dbg(dev, "PCI Virtual NTB driver loaded\n"); return 0; - -err_register_dev: - put_device(&ndev->ntb.dev); - return -EINVAL; } static struct pci_device_id pci_vntb_table[] = {