This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

driver core: auxiliary bus: Fix memory leak when driver_register()

to my driver-core git tree which can be found at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core.git in the driver-core-linus branch.

The patch will show up in the next release of the linux-next tree (usually sometime within the next 24 hours during the week.)

The patch will hopefully also be merged in Linus's tree for the next -rc kernel release.

If you have any questions about this process, please let me know.

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From: Peter Ujfalusi peter.ujfalusi@linux.intel.com Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2021 12:34:38 +0300 Subject: driver core: auxiliary bus: Fix memory leak when driver_register() fail

If driver_register() returns with error we need to free the memory allocated for auxdrv->driver.name before returning from __auxiliary_driver_register()

Fixes: 7de3697e9cbd4 ("Add auxiliary bus support") Reviewed-by: Dan Williams dan.j.williams@intel.com Cc: stable stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Peter Ujfalusi peter.ujfalusi@linux.intel.com Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210713093438.3173-1-peter.ujfalusi@linux.intel.c... Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- drivers/base/auxiliary.c | 8 +++++++- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/base/auxiliary.c b/drivers/base/auxiliary.c index adc199dfba3c..6a30264ab2ba 100644 --- a/drivers/base/auxiliary.c +++ b/drivers/base/auxiliary.c @@ -231,6 +231,8 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(auxiliary_find_device); int __auxiliary_driver_register(struct auxiliary_driver *auxdrv, struct module *owner, const char *modname) { + int ret; + if (WARN_ON(!auxdrv->probe) || WARN_ON(!auxdrv->id_table)) return -EINVAL;

@@ -246,7 +248,11 @@ int __auxiliary_driver_register(struct auxiliary_driver *auxdrv, auxdrv->driver.bus = &auxiliary_bus_type; auxdrv->driver.mod_name = modname;

- return driver_register(&auxdrv->driver); + ret = driver_register(&auxdrv->driver); + if (ret) + kfree(auxdrv->driver.name); + + return ret; } EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(__auxiliary_driver_register);