Patch "perf/x86/intel: Plug memory leak in intel_pmu_init()" has been added to the 4.14-stable tree

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

perf/x86/intel: Plug memory leak in intel_pmu_init()

to the 4.14-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
perf-x86-intel-plug-memory-leak-in-intel_pmu_init.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.14 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.

From: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2017 19:45:31 +0100
Subject: perf/x86/intel: Plug memory leak in intel_pmu_init()

From: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>

[ Upstream commit 7ad1437d6ace0e450a6c1167720608ad660b191d ]

A recent commit introduced an extra merge_attr() call in the skylake branch, which causes a memory leak.

Store the pointer to the extra allocated memory and free it at the end of the function.

---
 arch/x86/events/intel/core.c |    5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

@@ -3847,6 +3847,8 @@ static struct attribute *intel_pmu_attrs
 
 __init int intel_pmu_init(void)
 {
+	struct attribute **extra_attr = NULL;
+	struct attribute **to_free = NULL;
 	union cpuid10_edx edx;
 	union cpuid10_eax eax;
 	union cpuid10_ebx ebx;

@@ -3854,7 +3856,6 @@ __init int intel_pmu_init(void)
 	unsigned int unused;
 	struct extra_reg *er;
 	int version, i;
-	struct attribute **extra_attr = NULL;
 	char *name;
 
 	if (!cpu_has(&boot_cpu_data, X86_FEATURE_ARCH_PERFMON)) {

@@ -4294,6 +4295,7 @@ __init int intel_pmu_init(void)
 		extra_attr = boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_RTM) ?
 			hsw_format_attr : nhm_format_attr;
 		extra_attr = merge_attr(extra_attr, skl_format_attr);
+		to_free = extra_attr;
 		x86_pmu.cpu_events = get_hsw_events_attrs();
 		intel_pmu_pebs_data_source_skl(
 			boot_cpu_data.x86_model == INTEL_FAM6_SKYLAKE_X);

@@ -4401,6 +4403,7 @@ __init int intel_pmu_init(void)
 		pr_cont("full-width counters, ");
 	}
 
+	kfree(to_free);
 	return 0;
 }
 

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-4.14/exec-avoid-gcc-8-warning-for-get_task_comm.patch queue-4.14/perf-x86-intel-plug-memory-leak-in-intel_pmu_init.patch queue-4.14/x86-efi-fix-kernel-param-add_efi_memmap-regression.patch queue-4.14/x86-platform-intel-mid-revert-make-bt_sfi_data-const.patch queue-4.14/x86-asm-allow-again-using-asm.h-when-building-for-the-bpf-clang-target.patch queue-4.14/x86-stacktrace-make-zombie-stack-traces-reliable.patch queue-4.14/ia64-sched-cputime-fix-build-error-if-config_virt_cpu_accounting_native-y.patch queue-4.14/genirq-guard-handle_bad_irq-log-messages.patch queue-4.14/hrtimer-ensure-posix-compliance-relative-clock_realtime-hrtimers.patch