Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] EDAC/versalnet: Fix device name memory leak

[Borislav Petkov]

On Wed, Apr 01, 2026 at 04:18:56AM -0700, Prasanna Kumar T S M wrote:
> 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.
> 
> Use a stack-local char array instead of using kzalloc() for name.
> 
> Fixes: d5fe2fec6c40 ("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 | 10 ++--------
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

Applied, thanks.

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    Boris.

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