From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	patches@lists.linux.dev,
	Jianhao Xu <jianhao.xu@seu.edu.cn>,
	Zilin Guan <zilin@seu.edu.cn>,
	Conor Dooley <conor.dooley@microchip.com>,
	Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 6.12 368/460] soc: microchip: mpfs: Fix memory leak in mpfs_sys_controller_probe()
Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2026 14:46:04 +0100
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6.12-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Zilin Guan <zilin@seu.edu.cn>

[ Upstream commit 5a741f8cc6fe62542f955cd8d24933a1b6589cbd ]

In mpfs_sys_controller_probe(), if of_get_mtd_device_by_node() fails,
the function returns immediately without freeing the allocated memory
for sys_controller, leading to a memory leak.

Fix this by jumping to the out_free label to ensure the memory is
properly freed.

Also, consolidate the error handling for the mbox_request_channel()
failure case to use the same label.

Fixes: 742aa6c563d2 ("soc: microchip: mpfs: enable access to the system controller's flash")
Co-developed-by: Jianhao Xu <jianhao.xu@seu.edu.cn>
Signed-off-by: Jianhao Xu <jianhao.xu@seu.edu.cn>
Signed-off-by: Zilin Guan <zilin@seu.edu.cn>
Signed-off-by: Conor Dooley <conor.dooley@microchip.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
 drivers/soc/microchip/mpfs-sys-controller.c | 13 +++++++++----
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/soc/microchip/mpfs-sys-controller.c b/drivers/soc/microchip/mpfs-sys-controller.c
index 30bc45d17d343..81636cfecd37e 100644
--- a/drivers/soc/microchip/mpfs-sys-controller.c
+++ b/drivers/soc/microchip/mpfs-sys-controller.c
@@ -142,8 +142,10 @@ static int mpfs_sys_controller_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
 
 	sys_controller->flash = of_get_mtd_device_by_node(np);
 	of_node_put(np);
-	if (IS_ERR(sys_controller->flash))
-		return dev_err_probe(dev, PTR_ERR(sys_controller->flash), "Failed to get flash\n");
+	if (IS_ERR(sys_controller->flash)) {
+		ret = dev_err_probe(dev, PTR_ERR(sys_controller->flash), "Failed to get flash\n");
+		goto out_free;
+	}
 
 no_flash:
 	sys_controller->client.dev = dev;
@@ -155,8 +157,7 @@ static int mpfs_sys_controller_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
 	if (IS_ERR(sys_controller->chan)) {
 		ret = dev_err_probe(dev, PTR_ERR(sys_controller->chan),
 				    "Failed to get mbox channel\n");
-		kfree(sys_controller);
-		return ret;
+		goto out_free;
 	}
 
 	init_completion(&sys_controller->c);
@@ -174,6 +175,10 @@ static int mpfs_sys_controller_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
 	dev_info(&pdev->dev, "Registered MPFS system controller\n");
 
 	return 0;
+
+out_free:
+	kfree(sys_controller);
+	return ret;
 }
 
 static void mpfs_sys_controller_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
-- 
2.51.0