Call thermal_cooling_device_unregister() and sysfs_remove_link() in the error path of acpi_fan_probe() to fix possible memory leak. This bug was found by an experimental static analysis tool that I am developing. Fixes: 05a83d972293 ("ACPI: register ACPI Fan as generic thermal cooling device") Signed-off-by: Joe Hattori <joe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- Changes in V2: - Handle the case when the "thermal_cooling" symlink creation fails. --- drivers/acpi/fan_core.c | 10 ++++++++-- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/acpi/fan_core.c b/drivers/acpi/fan_core.c index 3ea9cfcff46e..10016f52f4f4 100644 --- a/drivers/acpi/fan_core.c +++ b/drivers/acpi/fan_core.c @@ -371,19 +371,25 @@ static int acpi_fan_probe(struct platform_device *pdev) result = sysfs_create_link(&pdev->dev.kobj, &cdev->device.kobj, "thermal_cooling"); - if (result) + if (result) { dev_err(&pdev->dev, "Failed to create sysfs link 'thermal_cooling'\n"); + goto err_unregister; + } result = sysfs_create_link(&cdev->device.kobj, &pdev->dev.kobj, "device"); if (result) { dev_err(&pdev->dev, "Failed to create sysfs link 'device'\n"); - goto err_end; + goto err_remove_link; } return 0; +err_remove_link: + sysfs_remove_link(&pdev->dev.kobj, "thermal_cooling"); +err_unregister: + thermal_cooling_device_unregister(cdev); err_end: if (fan->acpi4) acpi_fan_delete_attributes(device); -- 2.34.1