This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled vfio/pci: fix potential memory leak in vfio_intx_enable() to the 6.9-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: vfio-pci-fix-potential-memory-leak-in-vfio_intx_enab.patch and it can be found in the queue-6.9 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 09e0541764ac46b0b8b88e5c1b5cc4e1d41031e5 Author: Ye Bin <yebin10@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon Apr 15 09:50:29 2024 +0800 vfio/pci: fix potential memory leak in vfio_intx_enable() [ Upstream commit 82b951e6fbd31d85ae7f4feb5f00ddd4c5d256e2 ] If vfio_irq_ctx_alloc() failed will lead to 'name' memory leak. Fixes: 18c198c96a81 ("vfio/pci: Create persistent INTx handler") Signed-off-by: Ye Bin <yebin10@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Kevin Tian <kevin.tian@xxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@xxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240415015029.3699844-1-yebin10@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci_intrs.c b/drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci_intrs.c index fb5392b749fff..e80c5d75b5419 100644 --- a/drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci_intrs.c +++ b/drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci_intrs.c @@ -277,8 +277,10 @@ static int vfio_intx_enable(struct vfio_pci_core_device *vdev, return -ENOMEM; ctx = vfio_irq_ctx_alloc(vdev, 0); - if (!ctx) + if (!ctx) { + kfree(name); return -ENOMEM; + } ctx->name = name; ctx->trigger = trigger;