From: Johan Hovold Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2018 12:43:34 +0000 (+0200) Subject: EDAC: Fix memleak in module init error path X-Git-Tag: v4.14.74~62 X-Git-Url: https://www.infradead.org/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=0c4439c4441608e79d4a0dcb3cd81b9becf918c2;p=users%2Fjedix%2Flinux-maple.git EDAC: Fix memleak in module init error path [ Upstream commit 4708aa85d50cc6e962dfa8acf5ad4e0d290a21db ] 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 Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- diff --git a/drivers/edac/edac_mc_sysfs.c b/drivers/edac/edac_mc_sysfs.c index e4fcfa84fbd3..79c13301bf41 100644 --- a/drivers/edac/edac_mc_sysfs.c +++ b/drivers/edac/edac_mc_sysfs.c @@ -1097,14 +1097,14 @@ 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; }