Inject fault while loading module, kset_register() may fail, if it fails, but the refcount of kobject is not decreased to 0, the name allocated in kobject_set_name() is leaked. To fix this by calling kset_put(), so that name can be freed in callback function kobject_cleanup() and 'subdir' is freed in kset_release(). unreferenced object 0xffff88810ad69050 (size 8): comm "swapper/0", pid 1, jiffies 4294677178 (age 38.812s) hex dump (first 8 bytes): 65 74 63 00 81 88 ff ff etc..... backtrace: [<00000000a80c7bf1>] __kmalloc_node_track_caller+0x44/0x1b0 [<000000003f0167c7>] kstrdup+0x3a/0x70 [<0000000049336709>] kstrdup_const+0x41/0x60 [<00000000175616e4>] kvasprintf_const+0xf5/0x180 [<000000004bcc30f7>] kobject_set_name_vargs+0x56/0x150 [<000000004b0251bd>] kobject_set_name+0xab/0xe0 [<00000000700151fb>] fw_cfg_sysfs_probe+0xa5b/0x1320 Fixes: 246c46ebaeae ("firmware: create directory hierarchy for sysfs fw_cfg entries") Signed-off-by: Yang Yingliang <yangyingliang@xxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/firmware/qemu_fw_cfg.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/firmware/qemu_fw_cfg.c b/drivers/firmware/qemu_fw_cfg.c index a69399a6b7c0..d036e69cabbb 100644 --- a/drivers/firmware/qemu_fw_cfg.c +++ b/drivers/firmware/qemu_fw_cfg.c @@ -544,7 +544,7 @@ static int fw_cfg_build_symlink(struct kset *dir, } ret = kset_register(subdir); if (ret) { - kfree(subdir); + kset_put(subdir); break; } -- 2.25.1