From 4708aa85d50cc6e962dfa8acf5ad4e0d290a21db Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Johan Hovold Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2018 14:43:34 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] EDAC: Fix memleak in module init error path Make sure to use put_device() to free the initialised struct device so that resources managed by driver core also gets released in the event of a registration failure. Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold Cc: Denis Kirjanov Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab Cc: linux-edac Fixes: 2d56b109e3a5 ("EDAC: Handle error path in edac_mc_sysfs_init() properly") Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180612124335.6420-1-johan@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov --- drivers/edac/edac_mc_sysfs.c | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/edac/edac_mc_sysfs.c b/drivers/edac/edac_mc_sysfs.c index 7481955160a4..20374b8248f0 100644 --- a/drivers/edac/edac_mc_sysfs.c +++ b/drivers/edac/edac_mc_sysfs.c @@ -1075,14 +1075,14 @@ int __init edac_mc_sysfs_init(void) err = device_add(mci_pdev); if (err < 0) - goto out_dev_free; + goto out_put_device; edac_dbg(0, "device %s created\n", dev_name(mci_pdev)); return 0; - out_dev_free: - kfree(mci_pdev); + out_put_device: + put_device(mci_pdev); out: return err; }