fastrpc_channel_ctx is not freed if misc_register() fails, this would lead to a memory leak. Fix this leak by adding kfree in misc_register() error path. Fixes: 278d56f970ae ("misc: fastrpc: Reference count channel context") Signed-off-by: Srinivas Kandagatla <srinivas.kandagatla@xxxxxxxxxx> --- Changes since v1: - Update subject as suggested - added fixes tag drivers/misc/fastrpc.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/misc/fastrpc.c b/drivers/misc/fastrpc.c index c562e285e0f4..07065728e39f 100644 --- a/drivers/misc/fastrpc.c +++ b/drivers/misc/fastrpc.c @@ -1615,8 +1615,10 @@ static int fastrpc_rpmsg_probe(struct rpmsg_device *rpdev) domains[domain_id]); data->miscdev.fops = &fastrpc_fops; err = misc_register(&data->miscdev); - if (err) + if (err) { + kfree(data); return err; + } kref_init(&data->refcount); -- 2.21.0