Re: [PATCH] usb: host: sl811_cs: fix memory leak on probe failure

[Nikolay Kulikov]

On Thu, Aug 27, 2026 at 03:41:20PM +0800, Zongmin Zhou wrote:
> From: Zongmin Zhou <zhouzongmin@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> sl811_cs_probe() leaks the local_info_t allocated into link->priv when
> sl811_cs_config() fails: the only kfree() lives in the remove callback
> sl811_cs_detach(), which the PCMCIA core never calls for a device whose
> probe failed.
> 
> Free the private data when sl811_cs_config() fails.
> 
> Fixes: c6de2b64eb57 ("[PATCH] USB: add sl811_cs support")

The code looks good to me, but I have a question regarding the Fixes
tag.

In the commit you cited, a failure triggered a call to
sl811_cs_detach(), which freed that memory. However, that behavior was
changed in commit

f8cfa618dccb ("[PATCH] pcmcia: unify attach, EVENT_CARD_INSERTION handlers into one probe callback")

where the call was removed, leaving the memory unfreed. Shouldn't that
be the commit referenced in the Fixes?


Thanks,
Nikolay