This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled bpf: Fix memory leak in bpf_core_apply to the 6.11-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: bpf-fix-memory-leak-in-bpf_core_apply.patch and it can be found in the queue-6.11 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 1ef4c7cc9f30db21d34ab8126764c58682e0a103 Author: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon Oct 7 18:09:58 2024 +0200 bpf: Fix memory leak in bpf_core_apply [ Upstream commit 45126b155e3b5201179cdc038504bf93a8ccd921 ] We need to free specs properly. Fixes: 3d2786d65aaa ("bpf: correctly handle malformed BPF_CORE_TYPE_ID_LOCAL relos") Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@xxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20241007160958.607434-1-jolsa@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/kernel/bpf/btf.c b/kernel/bpf/btf.c index 7783b16b87cfe..9b068afd17953 100644 --- a/kernel/bpf/btf.c +++ b/kernel/bpf/btf.c @@ -8905,6 +8905,7 @@ int bpf_core_apply(struct bpf_core_ctx *ctx, const struct bpf_core_relo *relo, if (!type) { bpf_log(ctx->log, "relo #%u: bad type id %u\n", relo_idx, relo->type_id); + kfree(specs); return -EINVAL; }