From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
The error exit path omits kfree'ing the allocated new_smi, causing a memory
leak. Fix this by kfree'ing new_smi.
Detected by CoverityScan, CID#14582571 ("Resource Leak")
Fixes: 7e030d6dff71 ("ipmi: Prefer ACPI system interfaces over SMBIOS ones")
Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff --git a/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c b/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c
index 55e0c42bee4d..4c16af64f73a 100644
--- a/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c
+++ b/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c
@@ -2004,6 +2004,7 @@ int ipmi_si_add_smi(struct si_sm_io *io)
ipmi_addr_src_to_str(new_smi->io.addr_source),
si_to_str[new_smi->io.si_type]);
rv = -EBUSY;
+ kfree(new_smi);
goto out_err;
}
}
--
2.14.1
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