This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled md: fix kmemleak of rdev->serial to the 6.6-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: md-fix-kmemleak-of-rdev-serial.patch and it can be found in the queue-6.6 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 6cf350658736681b9d6b0b6e58c5c76b235bb4c4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Li Nan <linan122@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2024 16:55:56 +0800 Subject: md: fix kmemleak of rdev->serial From: Li Nan <linan122@xxxxxxxxxx> commit 6cf350658736681b9d6b0b6e58c5c76b235bb4c4 upstream. If kobject_add() is fail in bind_rdev_to_array(), 'rdev->serial' will be alloc not be freed, and kmemleak occurs. unreferenced object 0xffff88815a350000 (size 49152): comm "mdadm", pid 789, jiffies 4294716910 hex dump (first 32 bytes): 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ backtrace (crc f773277a): [<0000000058b0a453>] kmemleak_alloc+0x61/0xe0 [<00000000366adf14>] __kmalloc_large_node+0x15e/0x270 [<000000002e82961b>] __kmalloc_node.cold+0x11/0x7f [<00000000f206d60a>] kvmalloc_node+0x74/0x150 [<0000000034bf3363>] rdev_init_serial+0x67/0x170 [<0000000010e08fe9>] mddev_create_serial_pool+0x62/0x220 [<00000000c3837bf0>] bind_rdev_to_array+0x2af/0x630 [<0000000073c28560>] md_add_new_disk+0x400/0x9f0 [<00000000770e30ff>] md_ioctl+0x15bf/0x1c10 [<000000006cfab718>] blkdev_ioctl+0x191/0x3f0 [<0000000085086a11>] vfs_ioctl+0x22/0x60 [<0000000018b656fe>] __x64_sys_ioctl+0xba/0xe0 [<00000000e54e675e>] do_syscall_64+0x71/0x150 [<000000008b0ad622>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x6c/0x74 Fixes: 963c555e75b0 ("md: introduce mddev_create/destroy_wb_pool for the change of member device") Signed-off-by: Li Nan <linan122@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Song Liu <song@xxxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240208085556.2412922-1-linan666@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [ mddev_destroy_serial_pool third parameter was removed in mainline, where there is no need to suspend within this function anymore. ] Signed-off-by: Jeremy Bongio <jbongio@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/md/md.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) --- a/drivers/md/md.c +++ b/drivers/md/md.c @@ -2485,6 +2485,7 @@ static int bind_rdev_to_array(struct md_ fail: pr_warn("md: failed to register dev-%s for %s\n", b, mdname(mddev)); + mddev_destroy_serial_pool(mddev, rdev, false); return err; } Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from linan122@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-6.6/md-fix-kmemleak-of-rdev-serial.patch queue-6.6/blk-iocost-do-not-warn-if-iocg-was-already-offlined.patch queue-6.6/block-fix-overflow-in-blk_ioctl_discard.patch