The driver iterates over the registered USB interfaces during GPIB
attach and takes a reference to their USB devices until a match is
found. These references are never released which leads to a memory leak
when devices are disconnected.

Fix the leak by dropping the unnecessary references.

Fixes: fce79512a96a ("staging: gpib: Add LPVO DIY USB GPIB driver")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org	# 6.13
Cc: Dave Penkler <dpenkler@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
---
 drivers/gpib/lpvo_usb_gpib/lpvo_usb_gpib.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpib/lpvo_usb_gpib/lpvo_usb_gpib.c b/drivers/gpib/lpvo_usb_gpib/lpvo_usb_gpib.c
index 389dde5a8481..e6ea9422d6f2 100644
--- a/drivers/gpib/lpvo_usb_gpib/lpvo_usb_gpib.c
+++ b/drivers/gpib/lpvo_usb_gpib/lpvo_usb_gpib.c
@@ -402,7 +402,7 @@ static int usb_gpib_attach(struct gpib_board *board, const struct gpib_board_con
 		for (j = 0 ; j < MAX_DEV ; j++) {
 			if ((assigned_usb_minors & 1 << j) == 0)
 				continue;
-			udev =	usb_get_dev(interface_to_usbdev(lpvo_usb_interfaces[j]));
+			udev = interface_to_usbdev(lpvo_usb_interfaces[j]);
 			device_path = kobject_get_path(&udev->dev.kobj, GFP_KERNEL);
 			match = gpib_match_device_path(&lpvo_usb_interfaces[j]->dev,
 						       config->device_path);
@@ -417,7 +417,7 @@ static int usb_gpib_attach(struct gpib_board *board, const struct gpib_board_con
 		for (j = 0 ; j < MAX_DEV ; j++) {
 			if ((assigned_usb_minors & 1 << j) == 0)
 				continue;
-			udev =	usb_get_dev(interface_to_usbdev(lpvo_usb_interfaces[j]));
+			udev = interface_to_usbdev(lpvo_usb_interfaces[j]);
 			DIA_LOG(1, "dev. %d: bus %d -> %d  dev: %d -> %d\n", j,
 				udev->bus->busnum, config->pci_bus, udev->devnum, config->pci_slot);
 			if (config->pci_bus == udev->bus->busnum &&
-- 
2.52.0

On Tue, Mar 10, 2026 at 11:51:27AM +0100, Johan Hovold wrote:
> The driver iterates over the registered USB interfaces during GPIB
> attach and takes a reference to their USB devices until a match is
> found. These references are never released which leads to a memory leak
> when devices are disconnected.
> 
> Fix the leak by dropping the unnecessary references.
> 
> Fixes: fce79512a96a ("staging: gpib: Add LPVO DIY USB GPIB driver")
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org	# 6.13
> Cc: Dave Penkler <dpenkler@gmail.com>
> Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
> ---

Can this one be picked up for 7.1?

Johan