linux-kernel - [PATCH] scsi: core: Correct wrong kfree() usage for `kobj->name`

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Message-ID: <20260116081359.353256-1-tzungbi@kernel.org>
Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2026 08:13:59 +0000
From: Tzung-Bi Shih <tzungbi@...nel.org>
To: "James E.J. Bottomley" <James.Bottomley@...senPartnership.com>,
	"Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>
Cc: linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	tzungbi@...nel.org,
	stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] scsi: core: Correct wrong kfree() usage for `kobj->name`

`kobj->name` should be freed by kfree_const()[1][2].  Correct it.

[1] https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v6.18/source/lib/kasprintf.c#L41
[2] https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v6.18/source/lib/kobject.c#L695

Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org
Fixes: b49493f99690 ("Fix a memory leak in scsi_host_dev_release()")
Signed-off-by: Tzung-Bi Shih <tzungbi@...nel.org>
---
 drivers/scsi/hosts.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/scsi/hosts.c b/drivers/scsi/hosts.c
index e047747d4ecf..50ec782cf9f4 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/hosts.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/hosts.c
@@ -373,7 +373,7 @@ static void scsi_host_dev_release(struct device *dev)
 		 * name as well as the proc dir structure are leaked.
 		 */
 		scsi_proc_hostdir_rm(shost->hostt);
-		kfree(dev_name(&shost->shost_dev));
+		kfree_const(dev_name(&shost->shost_dev));
 	}
 
 	kfree(shost->shost_data);
-- 
2.52.0.457.g6b5491de43-goog