From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:57624 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752473AbeB1PRr (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Feb 2018 10:17:47 -0500 Subject: Patch "mdio-sun4i: Fix a memory leak" has been added to the 3.18-stable tree To: christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr, alexander.levin@microsoft.com, davem@davemloft.net, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Cc: , From: Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2018 16:17:32 +0100 Message-ID: <151983105223347@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ANSI_X3.4-1968 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: stable-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled mdio-sun4i: Fix a memory leak to the 3.18-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-3.18 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let know about it. >>From foo@baz Wed Feb 28 16:16:23 CET 2018 From: Christophe JAILLET Date: Sat, 6 Jan 2018 09:00:09 +0100 Subject: mdio-sun4i: Fix a memory leak From: Christophe JAILLET [ 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 Signed-off-by: David S. Miller Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- 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 @@ -128,8 +128,10 @@ 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"); } else { Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr are queue-3.18/mdio-sun4i-fix-a-memory-leak.patch