The scontrol->name is allocated with kstrdup, it must be freed before the scontrol is freed to avoid leaking memory. The constant leaking happens via sof_widget_unload() path on every module removal. Fixes: b5cee8feb1d48 ("ASoC: SOF: topology: Make control parsing IPC agnostic") Signed-off-by: Peter Ujfalusi <peter.ujfalusi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Pierre-Louis Bossart <pierre-louis.bossart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Ranjani Sridharan <ranjani.sridharan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- sound/soc/sof/topology.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/sound/soc/sof/topology.c b/sound/soc/sof/topology.c index 9b11e9795a7a..75d78f9178a3 100644 --- a/sound/soc/sof/topology.c +++ b/sound/soc/sof/topology.c @@ -941,11 +941,13 @@ static int sof_control_load(struct snd_soc_component *scomp, int index, default: dev_warn(scomp->dev, "control type not supported %d:%d:%d\n", hdr->ops.get, hdr->ops.put, hdr->ops.info); + kfree(scontrol->name); kfree(scontrol); return 0; } if (ret < 0) { + kfree(scontrol->name); kfree(scontrol); return ret; } @@ -1380,6 +1382,7 @@ static int sof_widget_unload(struct snd_soc_component *scomp, } kfree(scontrol->ipc_control_data); list_del(&scontrol->list); + kfree(scontrol->name); kfree(scontrol); } -- 2.35.1