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

iio: buffer: Fix memory leak in

to my char-misc git tree which can be found at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc.git in the char-misc-next 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 also be merged in the next major kernel release during the merge window.

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

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From: Yang Yingliang yangyingliang@huawei.com Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2021 22:42:42 +0800 Subject: iio: buffer: Fix memory leak in iio_buffer_register_legacy_sysfs_groups()

If the second iio_device_register_sysfs_group() fails, 'legacy_buffer_group.attrs' need be freed too or it will cause memory leak:

unreferenced object 0xffff888003618280 (size 64): comm "xrun", pid 357, jiffies 4294907259 (age 22.296s) hex dump (first 32 bytes): 80 f6 8c 03 80 88 ff ff 80 fb 8c 03 80 88 ff ff ................ 00 f9 8c 03 80 88 ff ff 80 fc 8c 03 80 88 ff ff ................ backtrace: [<00000000076bfd43>] __kmalloc+0x1a3/0x2f0 [<00000000c32e4886>] iio_buffers_alloc_sysfs_and_mask+0xc31/0x1290 [industrialio]

Reported-by: Hulk Robot hulkci@huawei.com Fixes: d9a625744ed0 ("iio: core: merge buffer/ & scan_elements/ attributes") Signed-off-by: Yang Yingliang yangyingliang@huawei.com Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211013144242.1685060-1-yangyingliang@huawei.com Cc: Stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jonathan Cameron Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com --- drivers/iio/industrialio-buffer.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/iio/industrialio-buffer.c b/drivers/iio/industrialio-buffer.c index ae0912a14578..1c3972150ab4 100644 --- a/drivers/iio/industrialio-buffer.c +++ b/drivers/iio/industrialio-buffer.c @@ -1367,10 +1367,10 @@ static int iio_buffer_register_legacy_sysfs_groups(struct iio_dev *indio_dev,

return 0;

-error_free_buffer_attrs: - kfree(iio_dev_opaque->legacy_buffer_group.attrs); error_free_scan_el_attrs: kfree(iio_dev_opaque->legacy_scan_el_group.attrs); +error_free_buffer_attrs: + kfree(iio_dev_opaque->legacy_buffer_group.attrs);

return ret; }