'es' is malloced from exfat_get_dentry_set() in exfat_find() and should be freed before leaving from the error handling cases, otherwise it will cause memory leak. Fixes: 5f2aa075070c ("exfat: add inode operations") Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun <weiyongjun1@xxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/exfat/namei.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/fs/exfat/namei.c b/fs/exfat/namei.c index c241dd177f1a..48f4df883f3b 100644 --- a/fs/exfat/namei.c +++ b/fs/exfat/namei.c @@ -681,6 +681,7 @@ static int exfat_find(struct inode *dir, struct qstr *qname, exfat_fs_error(sb, "non-zero size file starts with zero cluster (size : %llu, p_dir : %u, entry : 0x%08x)", i_size_read(dir), ei->dir.dir, ei->entry); + kfree(es); return -EIO; }