From 8623ccbfc55d962e19a3537652803676ad7acb90 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Yang Yingliang Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2022 23:19:17 +0800 Subject: NTB: ntb_transport: fix possible memory leak while device_register() fails If device_register() returns error, the name allocated by dev_set_name() need be freed. As comment of device_register() says, it should use put_device() to give up the reference in the error path. So fix this by calling put_device(), then the name can be freed in kobject_cleanup(), and client_dev is freed in ntb_transport_client_release(). Fixes: fce8a7bb5b4b ("PCI-Express Non-Transparent Bridge Support") Signed-off-by: Yang Yingliang Reviewed-by: Dave Jiang Signed-off-by: Jon Mason --- drivers/ntb/ntb_transport.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'drivers/ntb') diff --git a/drivers/ntb/ntb_transport.c b/drivers/ntb/ntb_transport.c index a9b97ebc71ac..2abd2235bbca 100644 --- a/drivers/ntb/ntb_transport.c +++ b/drivers/ntb/ntb_transport.c @@ -410,7 +410,7 @@ int ntb_transport_register_client_dev(char *device_name) rc = device_register(dev); if (rc) { - kfree(client_dev); + put_device(dev); goto err; } -- cgit v1.2.3