[PATCH 5/5] EDAC/versalnet: Fix device name memory leak

From: Prasanna Kumar T S M

Date: Sun Mar 22 2026 - 09:13:44 EST


The device name allocated via kzalloc() in init_one_mc() is assigned to
dev->init_name but never freed on the normal removal path.
device_register() copies init_name and then sets dev->init_name to NULL,
so the name pointer becomes unreachable from the device. Thus leaking
memory.

Track the name pointer in mc_priv and free it in remove_one_mc().

Fixes: d5fe2fec6c40d ("EDAC: Add a driver for the AMD Versal NET DDR controller")
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Prasanna Kumar T S M <ptsm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/edac/versalnet_edac.c | 5 +++++
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/edac/versalnet_edac.c b/drivers/edac/versalnet_edac.c
index 6463e88ed3d3..17a5c8f416b9 100644
--- a/drivers/edac/versalnet_edac.c
+++ b/drivers/edac/versalnet_edac.c
@@ -158,6 +158,7 @@ struct mc_priv {
u32 regs[REG_MAX];
u32 adec[ADEC_MAX];
struct mem_ctl_info *mci[NUM_CONTROLLERS];
+ char *mci_name[NUM_CONTROLLERS];
struct rpmsg_endpoint *ept;
struct cdx_mcdi *mcdi;
};
@@ -765,11 +766,14 @@ static void versal_edac_release(struct device *dev)
static void remove_one_mc(struct mc_priv *priv, int i)
{
struct mem_ctl_info *mci;
+ char *mci_name;

mci = priv->mci[i];
device_unregister(mci->pdev);
edac_mc_del_mc(mci->pdev);
edac_mc_free(mci);
+ mci_name = priv->mci_name[i];
+ kfree(mci_name);
}

static int init_one_mc(struct mc_priv *priv, struct platform_device *pdev, int i)
@@ -848,6 +852,7 @@ static int init_one_mc(struct mc_priv *priv, struct platform_device *pdev, int i
}

priv->mci[i] = mci;
+ priv->mci_name[i] = name;
priv->dwidth = dt;

platform_set_drvdata(pdev, priv);
--
2.49.0