This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled mdio-sun4i: Fix a memory leak to the 4.14-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: mdio-sun4i-fix-a-memory-leak.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.14 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From foo@baz Wed Feb 28 16:23:28 CET 2018 From: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Sat, 6 Jan 2018 09:00:09 +0100 Subject: mdio-sun4i: Fix a memory leak From: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@xxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 56c0290202ab94a2f2780c449395d4ae8495fab4 ] If the probing of the regulator is deferred, the memory allocated by 'mdiobus_alloc_size()' will be leaking. It should be freed before the next call to 'sun4i_mdio_probe()' which will reallocate it. Fixes: 4bdcb1dd9feb ("net: Add MDIO bus driver for the Allwinner EMAC") Signed-off-by: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/net/phy/mdio-sun4i.c | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/net/phy/mdio-sun4i.c +++ b/drivers/net/phy/mdio-sun4i.c @@ -118,8 +118,10 @@ static int sun4i_mdio_probe(struct platf data->regulator = devm_regulator_get(&pdev->dev, "phy"); if (IS_ERR(data->regulator)) { - if (PTR_ERR(data->regulator) == -EPROBE_DEFER) - return -EPROBE_DEFER; + if (PTR_ERR(data->regulator) == -EPROBE_DEFER) { + ret = -EPROBE_DEFER; + goto err_out_free_mdiobus; + } dev_info(&pdev->dev, "no regulator found\n"); data->regulator = NULL; Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from christophe.jaillet@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.14/mdio-sun4i-fix-a-memory-leak.patch queue-4.14/mm-frame_vector.c-release-a-semaphore-in-get_vaddr_frames.patch