I got memory leak as follows when doing fault injection test: unreferenced object 0xffff888020a7a680 (size 64): comm "i2c-mcp23018-41", pid 23090, jiffies 4295160544 (age 8.680s) hex dump (first 32 bytes): 00 48 d3 1e 80 88 ff ff 00 1a 56 c1 ff ff ff ff .H........V..... 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ backtrace: [<0000000083c79b35>] kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0x16d/0x360 [<0000000051803c95>] pinctrl_init_controller+0x6ed/0xb70 [<0000000064346707>] pinctrl_register+0x27/0x80 [<0000000029b0e186>] devm_pinctrl_register+0x5b/0xe0 [<00000000391f5a3e>] mcp23s08_probe_one+0x968/0x118a [pinctrl_mcp23s08] [<000000006112c039>] mcp230xx_probe+0x266/0x560 [pinctrl_mcp23s08_i2c] If pinctrl_claim_hogs() fails, the 'pindesc' allocated in pinctrl_register_one_pin() need be freed. Reported-by: Hulk Robot <hulkci@xxxxxxxxxx> Fixes: 950b0d91dc10 ("pinctrl: core: Fix regression caused by delayed work for hogs") Signed-off-by: Yang Yingliang <yangyingliang@xxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/pinctrl/core.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/pinctrl/core.c b/drivers/pinctrl/core.c index 5082102d7d0d..ffe39336fcac 100644 --- a/drivers/pinctrl/core.c +++ b/drivers/pinctrl/core.c @@ -2100,6 +2100,8 @@ int pinctrl_enable(struct pinctrl_dev *pctldev) if (error) { dev_err(pctldev->dev, "could not claim hogs: %i\n", error); + pinctrl_free_pindescs(pctldev, pctldev->desc->pins, + pctldev->desc->npins); mutex_destroy(&pctldev->mutex); kfree(pctldev); -- 2.25.1