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* [PATCH] driver core: fix memory leak in physical location error path
@ 2026-11-02  8:30 Johan Hovold
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From: Johan Hovold @ 2026-11-02  8:30 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Greg Kroah-Hartman, Rafael J. Wysocki, Danilo Krummrich,
	Johan Hovold
  Cc: driver-core, linux-kernel, stable, Won Chung

Make sure to free the physical location memory also in the unlikely
event that creating its sysfs attributes fails during probe.

Fixes: 6423d2951087 ("driver core: Add sysfs support for physical location of a device")
Closes: https://sashiko.dev/#/bug/linux-b178c32c-f23b-48fd-9463-70f321f2d91e
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org	# 5.19
Cc: Won Chung <wonchung@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
---
 drivers/base/core.c | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/base/core.c b/drivers/base/core.c
index cbe05197d4a0..bf97b06337a1 100644
--- a/drivers/base/core.c
+++ b/drivers/base/core.c
@@ -3011,12 +3011,13 @@ static int device_add_attrs(struct device *dev)
 		error = device_add_group(dev,
 			&dev_attr_physical_location_group);
 		if (error)
-			goto err_remove_dev_removable;
+			goto err_free_physical_location;
 	}
 
 	return 0;
 
- err_remove_dev_removable:
+ err_free_physical_location:
+	kfree(dev->physical_location);
 	device_remove_file(dev, &dev_attr_removable);
  err_remove_dev_waiting_for_supplier:
 	device_remove_file(dev, &dev_attr_waiting_for_supplier);
-- 
2.55.0


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