I got memory leak as follows when doing fault injection test: unreferenced object 0xffff888014aec078 (size 8): comm "xrun", pid 356, jiffies 4294910619 (age 16.332s) hex dump (first 8 bytes): 31 2d 30 30 31 63 00 00 1-001c.. backtrace: [<00000000eb56c0a9>] __kmalloc_track_caller+0x1a6/0x300 [<000000000b220ea3>] kvasprintf+0xad/0x140 [<00000000b83203e5>] kvasprintf_const+0x62/0x190 [<000000002a5eab37>] kobject_set_name_vargs+0x56/0x140 [<00000000300ac279>] dev_set_name+0xb0/0xe0 [<00000000b66ebd6f>] i2c_new_client_device+0x7e4/0x9a0 In error path after calling i2c_dev_set_name(), the put_device() should be used to give up the device reference, then the name allocated in dev_set_name() will be freed in kobject_cleanup(). Reported-by: Hulk Robot <hulkci@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Yang Yingliang <yangyingliang@xxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/i2c/i2c-core-base.c | 13 +++++++------ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/i2c/i2c-core-base.c b/drivers/i2c/i2c-core-base.c index 54964fbe3f03..190d4fd5e594 100644 --- a/drivers/i2c/i2c-core-base.c +++ b/drivers/i2c/i2c-core-base.c @@ -1047,8 +1047,6 @@ i2c_new_client_device(struct i2c_adapter *adap, struct i2c_board_info const *inf client->dev.of_node = of_node_get(info->of_node); client->dev.fwnode = info->fwnode; - i2c_dev_set_name(adap, client, info); - if (info->swnode) { status = device_add_software_node(&client->dev, info->swnode); if (status) { @@ -1059,17 +1057,20 @@ i2c_new_client_device(struct i2c_adapter *adap, struct i2c_board_info const *inf } } + i2c_dev_set_name(adap, client, info); status = device_register(&client->dev); - if (status) - goto out_remove_swnode; + if (status) { + device_remove_software_node(&client->dev); + of_node_put(info->of_node); + put_device(&client->dev); + return ERR_PTR(status); + } dev_dbg(&adap->dev, "client [%s] registered with bus id %s\n", client->name, dev_name(&client->dev)); return client; -out_remove_swnode: - device_remove_software_node(&client->dev); out_err_put_of_node: of_node_put(info->of_node); out_err: -- 2.25.1