FAILED: patch "[PATCH] drm/xe/sync: Fix user fence leak on alloc failure" failed to apply to 6.18-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

The patch below does not apply to the 6.18-stable tree.
If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm
tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit
id to <stable@vger.kernel.org>.

To reproduce the conflict and resubmit, you may use the following commands:

git fetch https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/ linux-6.18.y
git checkout FETCH_HEAD
git cherry-pick -x 0879c3f04f67e2a1677c25dcc24669ce21eb6a6c
# <resolve conflicts, build, test, etc.>
git commit -s
git send-email --to '<stable@vger.kernel.org>' --in-reply-to '2026031722-spectrum-cocoa-0d75@gregkh' --subject-prefix 'PATCH 6.18.y' HEAD^..

Possible dependencies:



thanks,

greg k-h

------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------

From 0879c3f04f67e2a1677c25dcc24669ce21eb6a6c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Shuicheng Lin <shuicheng.lin@intel.com>
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2026 23:35:19 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] drm/xe/sync: Fix user fence leak on alloc failure

When dma_fence_chain_alloc() fails, properly release the user fence
reference to prevent a memory leak.

Fixes: 0995c2fc39b0 ("drm/xe: Enforce correct user fence signaling order using")
Cc: Matthew Brost <matthew.brost@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Shuicheng Lin <shuicheng.lin@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Matthew Brost <matthew.brost@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Matthew Brost <matthew.brost@intel.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260219233516.2938172-6-shuicheng.lin@intel.com
(cherry picked from commit a5d5634cde48a9fcd68c8504aa07f89f175074a0)
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Rodrigo Vivi <rodrigo.vivi@intel.com>

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_sync.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_sync.c
index ebf6c96d7a41..24d6d9af20d6 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_sync.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/xe/xe_sync.c
@@ -206,8 +206,10 @@ int xe_sync_entry_parse(struct xe_device *xe, struct xe_file *xef,
 			if (XE_IOCTL_DBG(xe, IS_ERR(sync->ufence)))
 				return PTR_ERR(sync->ufence);
 			sync->ufence_chain_fence = dma_fence_chain_alloc();
-			if (!sync->ufence_chain_fence)
-				return -ENOMEM;
+			if (!sync->ufence_chain_fence) {
+				err = -ENOMEM;
+				goto free_sync;
+			}
 			sync->ufence_syncobj = ufence_syncobj;
 		}