This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled wifi: rtlwifi: fix memory leaks and invalid access at probe error path 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: wifi-rtlwifi-fix-memory-leaks-and-invalid-access-at-.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 547aa99b371fea703655af21f6b07a537fcec9a5 Author: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri Dec 6 14:37:12 2024 -0300 wifi: rtlwifi: fix memory leaks and invalid access at probe error path [ Upstream commit e7ceefbfd8d447abc8aca8ab993a942803522c06 ] Deinitialize at reverse order when probe fails. When init_sw_vars fails, rtl_deinit_core should not be called, specially now that it destroys the rtl_wq workqueue. And call rtl_pci_deinit and deinit_sw_vars, otherwise, memory will be leaked. Remove pci_set_drvdata call as it will already be cleaned up by the core driver code and could lead to memory leaks too. cf. commit 8d450935ae7f ("wireless: rtlwifi: remove unnecessary pci_set_drvdata()") and commit 3d86b93064c7 ("rtlwifi: Fix PCI probe error path orphaned memory"). Fixes: 0c8173385e54 ("rtl8192ce: Add new driver") Signed-off-by: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Ping-Ke Shih <pkshih@xxxxxxxxxxx> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20241206173713.3222187-4-cascardo@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/pci.c b/drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/pci.c index 84f2669f201ab..5b0a5a22d06d2 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/pci.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/pci.c @@ -2167,7 +2167,7 @@ int rtl_pci_probe(struct pci_dev *pdev, if (rtlpriv->cfg->ops->init_sw_vars(hw)) { pr_err("Can't init_sw_vars\n"); err = -ENODEV; - goto fail3; + goto fail2; } rtlpriv->cfg->ops->init_sw_leds(hw); @@ -2185,14 +2185,14 @@ int rtl_pci_probe(struct pci_dev *pdev, err = rtl_pci_init(hw, pdev); if (err) { pr_err("Failed to init PCI\n"); - goto fail3; + goto fail4; } err = ieee80211_register_hw(hw); if (err) { pr_err("Can't register mac80211 hw.\n"); err = -ENODEV; - goto fail3; + goto fail5; } rtlpriv->mac80211.mac80211_registered = 1; @@ -2215,9 +2215,12 @@ int rtl_pci_probe(struct pci_dev *pdev, set_bit(RTL_STATUS_INTERFACE_START, &rtlpriv->status); return 0; -fail3: - pci_set_drvdata(pdev, NULL); +fail5: + rtl_pci_deinit(hw); +fail4: rtl_deinit_core(hw); +fail3: + rtlpriv->cfg->ops->deinit_sw_vars(hw); fail2: if (rtlpriv->io.pci_mem_start != 0)