Re: [PATCH] xen/scsiback: fix potential memory leak in scsiback_remove()

From: Jürgen Groß
Date: Mon Jan 05 2026 - 07:33:12 EST


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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Fixes: d9d660f6e562 ("xen-scsiback: Add Xen PV SCSI backend driver")
Signed-off-by: Abdun Nihaal <nihaal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@xxxxxxxx>


Juergen

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