From: Wang Yufen <wangyufen@xxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 064bc7312bd09a48798418663090be0c776183db ] kmemleak reports this issue: unreferenced object 0xffff8881bac872d0 (size 8): comm "sh", pid 58603, jiffies 4481524462 (age 68.065s) hex dump (first 8 bytes): 04 00 00 00 de ad be ef ........ backtrace: [<00000000c80b8577>] __kmalloc+0x49/0x150 [<000000005292b8c6>] nsim_dev_trap_fa_cookie_write+0xc1/0x210 [netdevsim] [<0000000093d78e77>] full_proxy_write+0xf3/0x180 [<000000005a662c16>] vfs_write+0x1c5/0xaf0 [<000000007aabf84a>] ksys_write+0xed/0x1c0 [<000000005f1d2e47>] do_syscall_64+0x3b/0x90 [<000000006001c6ec>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd The issue occurs in the following scenarios: nsim_dev_trap_fa_cookie_write() kmalloc() fa_cookie nsim_dev->fa_cookie = fa_cookie .. nsim_drv_remove() The fa_cookie allocked in nsim_dev_trap_fa_cookie_write() is not freed. To fix, add kfree(nsim_dev->fa_cookie) to nsim_drv_remove(). Fixes: d3cbb907ae57 ("netdevsim: add ACL trap reporting cookie as a metadata") Signed-off-by: Wang Yufen <wangyufen@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Jiri Pirko <jiri@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1668504625-14698-1-git-send-email-wangyufen@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/net/netdevsim/dev.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/drivers/net/netdevsim/dev.c b/drivers/net/netdevsim/dev.c index b17e4e94a060..38562ed833da 100644 --- a/drivers/net/netdevsim/dev.c +++ b/drivers/net/netdevsim/dev.c @@ -1675,6 +1675,7 @@ void nsim_drv_remove(struct nsim_bus_dev *nsim_bus_dev) ARRAY_SIZE(nsim_devlink_params)); devl_resources_unregister(devlink); kfree(nsim_dev->vfconfigs); + kfree(nsim_dev->fa_cookie); devl_unlock(devlink); devlink_free(devlink); dev_set_drvdata(&nsim_bus_dev->dev, NULL); -- 2.35.1