From: Ye Bin <yebin10@xxxxxxxxxx> As 'kobject_add' may allocated memory for 'kobject->name' when return error. And in this function, if call 'kobject_add' failed didn't free kobject. So call 'kobject_put' to recycling resources. Signed-off-by: Ye Bin <yebin10@xxxxxxxxxx> --- sound/hda/hdac_sysfs.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/sound/hda/hdac_sysfs.c b/sound/hda/hdac_sysfs.c index e47de49a32e3..62a9615dcf52 100644 --- a/sound/hda/hdac_sysfs.c +++ b/sound/hda/hdac_sysfs.c @@ -346,8 +346,10 @@ static int add_widget_node(struct kobject *parent, hda_nid_t nid, return -ENOMEM; kobject_init(kobj, &widget_ktype); err = kobject_add(kobj, parent, "%02x", nid); - if (err < 0) + if (err < 0) { + kobject_put(kobj); return err; + } err = sysfs_create_group(kobj, group); if (err < 0) { kobject_put(kobj); -- 2.31.1