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authorJohan Hovold <[email protected]>2018-06-12 14:43:34 +0200
committerBorislav Petkov <[email protected]>2018-06-17 13:09:44 +0200
commit4708aa85d50cc6e962dfa8acf5ad4e0d290a21db (patch)
treefad36b23fc027cd1d0bb171025af0fdb4ad347cb
parent9d72fe1ce81bc757ecb6d57b58e5fd95b9ad1b26 (diff)
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 <[email protected]> Cc: Denis Kirjanov <[email protected]> Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <[email protected]> Cc: linux-edac <[email protected]> Fixes: 2d56b109e3a5 ("EDAC: Handle error path in edac_mc_sysfs_init() properly") Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <[email protected]>
-rw-r--r--drivers/edac/edac_mc_sysfs.c6
1 files 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;
}