Call kfree() in the error path to free the memory allocated by kzalloc(). Signed-off-by: Tiezhu Yang <yangtiezhu@xxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/md/bcache/super.c | 8 ++++++-- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/md/bcache/super.c b/drivers/md/bcache/super.c index 46a0013..af51574 100644 --- a/drivers/md/bcache/super.c +++ b/drivers/md/bcache/super.c @@ -2593,8 +2593,10 @@ static ssize_t register_bcache(struct kobject *k, struct kobj_attribute *attr, ret = register_bdev(sb, sb_disk, bdev, dc); mutex_unlock(&bch_register_lock); /* blkdev_put() will be called in cached_dev_free() */ - if (ret < 0) + if (ret < 0) { + kfree(dc); goto out_free_sb; + } } else { struct cache *ca = kzalloc(sizeof(*ca), GFP_KERNEL); @@ -2602,8 +2604,10 @@ static ssize_t register_bcache(struct kobject *k, struct kobj_attribute *attr, goto out_put_sb_page; /* blkdev_put() will be called in bch_cache_release() */ - if (register_cache(sb, sb_disk, bdev, ca) != 0) + if (register_cache(sb, sb_disk, bdev, ca) != 0) { + kfree(ca); goto out_free_sb; + } } done: -- 2.1.0