From: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
To: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de>
Cc: linux-mips@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>,
stable@vger.kernel.org, Levente Kurusa <levex@linux.com>
Subject: [PATCH 1/5] MIPS: ip22-gio: fix kfree() of static object
Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2026 12:28:45 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260424102849.2616035-2-johan@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260424102849.2616035-1-johan@kernel.org>
The gio bus root device is a statically allocated object which must not
be freed by kfree() on failure to register the device or bus.
Fixes: 82242d28ff8b ("MIPS: IP22: Add missing put_device call")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 3.17
Cc: Levente Kurusa <levex@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
---
arch/mips/sgi-ip22/ip22-gio.c | 1 -
1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/arch/mips/sgi-ip22/ip22-gio.c b/arch/mips/sgi-ip22/ip22-gio.c
index 9eec8842ffb7..a574441fa44b 100644
--- a/arch/mips/sgi-ip22/ip22-gio.c
+++ b/arch/mips/sgi-ip22/ip22-gio.c
@@ -30,7 +30,6 @@ static struct {
static void gio_bus_release(struct device *dev)
{
- kfree(dev);
}
static struct device gio_bus = {
--
2.53.0
next parent reply other threads:[~2026-04-24 10:28 UTC|newest]
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2026-04-24 10:28 ` Johan Hovold [this message]
2026-04-24 10:28 ` [PATCH 2/5] MIPS: ip22-gio: fix gio device memory leak Johan Hovold
2026-04-24 10:28 ` [PATCH 3/5] MIPS: ip22-gio: fix device reference leak in probe Johan Hovold
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