In error case, we do not free the memory for blk_symlink_name. Do it by free the memory in error case, and set to NULL afterwards. Also fix the condition in rnbd_clt_remove_dev_symlink. Fixes: 64e8a6ece1a5 ("block/rnbd-clt: Dynamically alloc buffer for pathname & blk_symlink_name") Signed-off-by: Jack Wang <jinpu.wang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Md Haris Iqbal <haris.iqbal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/block/rnbd/rnbd-clt-sysfs.c | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/block/rnbd/rnbd-clt-sysfs.c b/drivers/block/rnbd/rnbd-clt-sysfs.c index a7caeedeb198..d4aa6bfc9555 100644 --- a/drivers/block/rnbd/rnbd-clt-sysfs.c +++ b/drivers/block/rnbd/rnbd-clt-sysfs.c @@ -432,7 +432,7 @@ void rnbd_clt_remove_dev_symlink(struct rnbd_clt_dev *dev) * i.e. rnbd_clt_unmap_dev_store() leading to a sysfs warning because * of sysfs link already was removed already. */ - if (strlen(dev->blk_symlink_name) && try_module_get(THIS_MODULE)) { + if (dev->blk_symlink_name && try_module_get(THIS_MODULE)) { sysfs_remove_link(rnbd_devs_kobj, dev->blk_symlink_name); kfree(dev->blk_symlink_name); module_put(THIS_MODULE); @@ -521,7 +521,8 @@ static int rnbd_clt_add_dev_symlink(struct rnbd_clt_dev *dev) return 0; out_err: - dev->blk_symlink_name[0] = '\0'; + kfree(dev->blk_symlink_name); + dev->blk_symlink_name = NULL ; return ret; } -- 2.25.1