Hi Wingman, There are some bugs in this error handling. On Tue, Feb 03, 2015 at 08:22:23PM +0100, SF Markus Elfring wrote: > diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/ti/netcp_ethss.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/ti/netcp_ethss.c > index fa1041a..cbd6dde 100644 > --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/ti/netcp_ethss.c > +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/ti/netcp_ethss.c > @@ -2010,12 +2010,10 @@ static int gbe_probe(struct netcp_device *netcp_device, struct device *dev, > quit: > if (gbe_dev->hw_stats) > devm_kfree(dev, gbe_dev->hw_stats); > - if (gbe_dev->ale) > - cpsw_ale_destroy(gbe_dev->ale); > + cpsw_ale_destroy(gbe_dev->ale); > if (gbe_dev->ss_regs) > devm_iounmap(dev, gbe_dev->ss_regs); > - if (interfaces) > - of_node_put(interfaces); > + of_node_put(interfaces); ^^^^^^^^^^ "interfaces" is sometimes unintialized in this code. I don't know why GCC doesn't catch this... :( This is a "one rrr bug", which is caused because you just have one error label "quit" which handles all the error handling. Please read my Google+ comment on error handling. https://plus.google.com/106378716002406849458/posts/dnanfhQ4mHQ > devm_kfree(dev, gbe_dev); ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ This is not the right way to use the devm_ interface. These things are freed automatically on error or when we are done with them. This driver is double freeing pretty much everything. Grep for devm_kfree() and fix everything. I don't know why kbuild didn't catch this... regards dan carpenter -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-janitors" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html