From: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
To: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org,
Yanfei Xu <yanfei.xu@windriver.com>,
syzbot+398e7dc692ddbbb4cfec@syzkaller.appspotmail.com,
"David S . Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
hkallweit1@gmail.com, kuba@kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.14 28/40] net: mdiobus: Fix memory leak in __mdiobus_register
Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2021 11:12:21 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YV281dk7FLrJKBab@sashalap> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YVxa7w8JWOMPOQsp@lunn.ch>
On Tue, Oct 05, 2021 at 04:02:23PM +0200, Andrew Lunn wrote:
>On Tue, Oct 05, 2021 at 09:50:07AM -0400, Sasha Levin wrote:
>> From: Yanfei Xu <yanfei.xu@windriver.com>
>>
>> [ Upstream commit ab609f25d19858513919369ff3d9a63c02cd9e2e ]
>>
>> Once device_register() failed, we should call put_device() to
>> decrement reference count for cleanup. Or it will cause memory
>> leak.
>
>Hi Sasha
>
>https://lkml.org/lkml/2021/10/4/1427
>
>Please don't backport for any stable kernel.
Dropped, thanks!
--
Thanks,
Sasha
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-10-06 15:12 UTC|newest]
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[not found] <20211005135020.214291-1-sashal@kernel.org>
2021-10-05 13:49 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.14 09/40] netfilter: ipset: Fix oversized kvmalloc() calls Sasha Levin
2021-10-05 13:49 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.14 12/40] netfilter: ip6_tables: zero-initialize fragment offset Sasha Levin
2021-10-05 13:49 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.14 17/40] netfilter: nf_tables: Fix oversized kvmalloc() calls Sasha Levin
2021-10-05 13:49 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.14 18/40] netfilter: nf_nat_masquerade: make async masq_inet6_event handling generic Sasha Levin
2021-10-05 13:49 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.14 19/40] netfilter: nf_nat_masquerade: defer conntrack walk to work queue Sasha Levin
2021-10-05 13:49 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.14 20/40] netfilter: conntrack: serialize hash resizes and cleanups Sasha Levin
2021-10-05 13:50 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.14 21/40] mac80211: Drop frames from invalid MAC address in ad-hoc mode Sasha Levin
2021-10-05 13:50 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.14 25/40] net: prevent user from passing illegal stab size Sasha Levin
2021-10-05 13:50 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.14 26/40] mac80211: check return value of rhashtable_init Sasha Levin
2021-10-05 13:50 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.14 27/40] net: bgmac-platform: handle mac-address deferral Sasha Levin
2021-10-05 13:50 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.14 28/40] net: mdiobus: Fix memory leak in __mdiobus_register Sasha Levin
2021-10-05 14:02 ` Andrew Lunn
2021-10-06 15:12 ` Sasha Levin [this message]
2021-10-05 13:50 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.14 31/40] net: sun: SUNVNET_COMMON should depend on INET Sasha Levin
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