The patch titled Subject: rapidio: add check for rio_add_net() in rio_scan_alloc_net() has been added to the -mm mm-hotfixes-unstable branch. Its filename is rapidio-add-check-for-rio_add_net-in-rio_scan_alloc_net.patch
This patch will shortly appear at https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/25-new.git/tree/patches...
This patch will later appear in the mm-hotfixes-unstable branch at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
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------------------------------------------------------ From: Haoxiang Li haoxiang_li2024@163.com Subject: rapidio: add check for rio_add_net() in rio_scan_alloc_net() Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2025 12:11:31 +0800
The return value of rio_add_net() should be checked. If it fails, put_device() should be called to free the memory and give up the reference initialized in rio_add_net().
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250227041131.3680761-1-haoxiang_li2024@163.com Fixes: e6b585ca6e81 ("rapidio: move net allocation into core code") Signed-off-by: Yang Yingliang yangyingliang@huawei.com Signed-off-by: Haoxiang Li haoxiang_li2024@163.com Cc: Alexandre Bounine alex.bou9@gmail.com Cc: Matt Porter mporter@kernel.crashing.org Cc: Dan Carpenter dan.carpenter@linaro.org Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton akpm@linux-foundation.org ---
drivers/rapidio/rio-scan.c | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/drivers/rapidio/rio-scan.c~rapidio-add-check-for-rio_add_net-in-rio_scan_alloc_net +++ a/drivers/rapidio/rio-scan.c @@ -871,7 +871,10 @@ static struct rio_net *rio_scan_alloc_ne dev_set_name(&net->dev, "rnet_%d", net->id); net->dev.parent = &mport->dev; net->dev.release = rio_scan_release_dev; - rio_add_net(net); + if (rio_add_net(net)) { + put_device(&net->dev); + net = NULL; + } }
return net; _
Patches currently in -mm which might be from haoxiang_li2024@163.com are
m68k-sun3-add-check-for-__pgd_alloc.patch rapidio-fix-an-api-misues-when-rio_add_net-fails.patch rapidio-add-check-for-rio_add_net-in-rio_scan_alloc_net.patch