From nobody Sun Feb 8 07:07:49 2026 Received: from smtp.kernel.org (aws-us-west-2-korg-mail-1.web.codeaurora.org [10.30.226.201]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id B5F522F1FC2; Fri, 16 Jan 2026 08:14:17 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=10.30.226.201 ARC-Seal: i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1768551257; cv=none; b=Qig7EaNdQW/6BUcPoxMoIVY2lFKY61D/nm8iv1RK23xvYdOwrEt+Flhsa60ZE+LC0dvGs9ngW6pjVgohDGhqC/m+EGuMV5sCqiLfhBoXT0Tvz0/N3bHumC1oDtSq3X3e9LqJ8D40PgFFOxzxS1W3JFqwnHcqsDxLXk9/Tft6QW8= ARC-Message-Signature: i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1768551257; c=relaxed/simple; bh=2eZrDfubXFMgUViM+5QQHkkdicFnc5S2ceEH8GCSr5U=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:Date:Message-ID:MIME-Version; b=LWePai0We3yFvfazVt+KcT05phKB4cWYRybgqak3lBiDg+mYAuqO5D+Sy9PdlJuXSDKBIJ2oVhnz4etz/wBhmQPgRfc/lpi/62zFOXeN7109urGluh60QjiFOkvT8wjCUw+Ay+lFUwQmASNC36kWTOaAPZmK5pAvzK2zXGXCBBk= ARC-Authentication-Results: i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=kernel.org header.i=@kernel.org header.b=OOKzf8jX; arc=none smtp.client-ip=10.30.226.201 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=kernel.org header.i=@kernel.org header.b="OOKzf8jX" Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 9EBC8C116C6; Fri, 16 Jan 2026 08:14:16 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=k20201202; t=1768551257; bh=2eZrDfubXFMgUViM+5QQHkkdicFnc5S2ceEH8GCSr5U=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:Date:From; b=OOKzf8jXSh67YIcPVMj2cEUwGkyf7U4lqgyafcZOQQvgXsmekcJ89fGL6w1gGbK7u pUFNSiS2CsfTNN+aORdcxc6Qque83ExwisJNvnmIvy8cFN+1zZg+2tAZyHR7jx5BEW dtLRmopFmjXZKDvl7zb3/x0z6r/ehRmQu6gMFkmhog40UHOxWvSvwDqCJK3ONCcntT zNdtR3jQHdGmouwvYtMRvmK+22U86SDs499Kq0VUUZatCSZetPQsH8uvSq4muZZvai DmZaaAZbWcTKF3F0I4uVEdO3zYRc+bCUut0nXh91JSMxdWLZCtV9DaZ39ZjEOyZhhW 53XR1K29fcNRQ== From: Tzung-Bi Shih To: "James E.J. Bottomley" , "Martin K. Petersen" Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, tzungbi@kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org Subject: [PATCH] scsi: core: Correct wrong kfree() usage for `kobj->name` Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2026 08:13:59 +0000 Message-ID: <20260116081359.353256-1-tzungbi@kernel.org> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.52.0.457.g6b5491de43-goog Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" `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@vger.kernel.org Fixes: b49493f99690 ("Fix a memory leak in scsi_host_dev_release()") Signed-off-by: Tzung-Bi Shih --- 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)); } =20 kfree(shost->shost_data); --=20 2.52.0.457.g6b5491de43-goog