Re: [PATCH] PCI/PTM: Fix memory leak in pcie_ptm_create_debugfs() error path

[Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@kernel.org>]

[+cc Mani, author of 132833405e61]

On Sun, Jan 11, 2026 at 10:06:50PM +0530, Aadityarangan Shridhar Iyengar wrote:
> In pcie_ptm_create_debugfs(), if devm_kasprintf() fails after successfully
> allocating ptm_debugfs with kzalloc(), the function returns NULL without
> freeing the allocated memory, resulting in a memory leak.
> 
> Fix this by adding kfree(ptm_debugfs) before returning NULL in the
> devm_kasprintf() error path.
> 
> This leak is particularly problematic during memory pressure situations
> where devm_kasprintf() is more likely to fail, potentially compounding
> the memory exhaustion issue.
> 
> Fixes: 132833405e61 ("PCI: Add debugfs support for exposing PTM context")
> Signed-off-by: Aadityarangan Shridhar Iyengar <adiyenga@cisco.com>

Applied to pci/ptm for v6.20, thanks!

> ---
>  drivers/pci/pcie/ptm.c | 4 +++-
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/pci/pcie/ptm.c b/drivers/pci/pcie/ptm.c
> index ed0f9691e7d1..09c0167048a3 100644
> --- a/drivers/pci/pcie/ptm.c
> +++ b/drivers/pci/pcie/ptm.c
> @@ -542,8 +542,10 @@ struct pci_ptm_debugfs *pcie_ptm_create_debugfs(struct device *dev, void *pdata,
>  		return NULL;
>  
>  	dirname = devm_kasprintf(dev, GFP_KERNEL, "pcie_ptm_%s", dev_name(dev));
> -	if (!dirname)
> +	if (!dirname) {
> +		kfree(ptm_debugfs);
>  		return NULL;
> +	}
>  
>  	ptm_debugfs->debugfs = debugfs_create_dir(dirname, NULL);
>  	ptm_debugfs->pdata = pdata;
> -- 
> 2.35.6
>