linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] xen/scsiback: fix potential memory leak in scsiback

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Message-ID: <2cd0de6b-ebae-4542-ad84-a17ed9216d6b@suse.com>
Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2026 13:31:34 +0100
From: Jürgen Groß <jgross@...e.com>
To: Abdun Nihaal <nihaal@....iitm.ac.in>
Cc: sstabellini@...nel.org, oleksandr_tyshchenko@...m.com,
 linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
 stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] xen/scsiback: fix potential memory leak in
 scsiback_remove()

On 23.12.25 07:30, Abdun Nihaal wrote:
> Memory allocated for struct vscsiblk_info in scsiback_probe() is not
> freed in scsiback_remove() leading to potential memory leaks on remove,
> as well as in the scsiback_probe() error paths. Fix that by freeing it
> in scsiback_remove().
> 
> Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org
> Fixes: d9d660f6e562 ("xen-scsiback: Add Xen PV SCSI backend driver")
> Signed-off-by: Abdun Nihaal <nihaal@....iitm.ac.in>

Reviewed-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@...e.com>


Juergen

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