Re: [PATCH] rapidio: fix a resource leak when rio_add_device() fails

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

On Sun, Dec 21, 2025 at 08:05:38PM +0800, Haoxiang Li wrote:
> If rio_add_device() fails, call rio_free_net() to unregister
> the net device registered by rio_add_net().
> 
> Fixes: e8de370188d0 ("rapidio: add mport char device driver")
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Haoxiang Li <lihaoxiang@isrc.iscas.ac.cn>
> ---
>  drivers/rapidio/devices/rio_mport_cdev.c | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/rapidio/devices/rio_mport_cdev.c b/drivers/rapidio/devices/rio_mport_cdev.c
> index 995cfeca972b..4a804b4ad6f7 100644
> --- a/drivers/rapidio/devices/rio_mport_cdev.c
> +++ b/drivers/rapidio/devices/rio_mport_cdev.c
> @@ -1789,6 +1789,7 @@ static int rio_mport_add_riodev(struct mport_cdev_priv *priv,
>  	err = rio_add_device(rdev);
>  	if (err) {
>  		put_device(&rdev->dev);
> +		rio_free_net(net);
>  		return err;

Are you sure this is right?  You aren't checking that rio_add_net() was
actually called.  How was this tested?  How was this found?  What tool
was used to find it?

thanks,

greg k-h