The Coverity checker spotted the following use-after-free in acpi_battery_add(): <-- snip --> ... static int acpi_battery_add(struct acpi_device *device) { ... if (result) { acpi_battery_remove_fs(device); kfree(battery); } mutex_unlock(&battery->mutex); ... <-- snip --> cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html