This function only has one caller. Freeing "vdev" here leads to a use after free bug. There are several other error paths in this function but this is the only one which frees "vdev". It looks like the kfree() can be safely removed. Fixes: 61e9c905df78 ("misc: mic: Enable VOP host side functionality") Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/misc/mic/vop/vop_vringh.c b/drivers/misc/mic/vop/vop_vringh.c index 88e45234d527..fed992e2c258 100644 --- a/drivers/misc/mic/vop/vop_vringh.c +++ b/drivers/misc/mic/vop/vop_vringh.c @@ -292,7 +292,6 @@ static int vop_virtio_add_device(struct vop_vdev *vdev, if (ret) { dev_err(vop_dev(vdev), "%s %d err %d\n", __func__, __LINE__, ret); - kfree(vdev); return ret; } -- 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