static analysis gives memory leak error for reg:- [drivers/acpi/resource.c:663]: (error) Memory leak: reg free allocated memory for reg in case of error from request_range Signed-off-by: Maninder Singh <maninder1.s@xxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Akhilesh Kumar <akhilesh.k@xxxxxxxxxxx> --- v1: allocate memory after request_range error checking v2: free allocated memory in case of error as Suggested by Jiang Liu <jiang.liu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> drivers/acpi/resource.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/acpi/resource.c b/drivers/acpi/resource.c index fcb7807..10561ce 100644 --- a/drivers/acpi/resource.c +++ b/drivers/acpi/resource.c @@ -660,8 +660,10 @@ static int add_region_before(u64 start, u64 end, u8 space_id, return -ENOMEM; error = request_range(start, end, space_id, flags, desc); - if (error) + if (error) { + kfree(reg); return error; + } reg->start = start; reg->end = end; -- 1.7.9.5 -- 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