From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Currently a failed allocation of channel->name leads to an immediate return without freeing channel. Fix this by setting ret to -ENOMEM and jumping to an exit path that kfree's channel. Detected by CoverityScan, CID#1473692 ("Resource Leak") Fixes: 53e2822e56c7 ("rpmsg: Introduce Qualcomm SMD backend") Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/rpmsg/qcom_smd.c | 7 +++++-- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/rpmsg/qcom_smd.c b/drivers/rpmsg/qcom_smd.c index 0dae7c9f4a8f..4abbeea782fa 100644 --- a/drivers/rpmsg/qcom_smd.c +++ b/drivers/rpmsg/qcom_smd.c @@ -1122,8 +1122,10 @@ static struct qcom_smd_channel *qcom_smd_create_channel(struct qcom_smd_edge *ed channel->edge = edge; channel->name = kstrdup(name, GFP_KERNEL); - if (!channel->name) - return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM); + if (!channel->name) { + ret = -ENOMEM; + goto free_channel; + } spin_lock_init(&channel->tx_lock); spin_lock_init(&channel->recv_lock); @@ -1173,6 +1175,7 @@ static struct qcom_smd_channel *qcom_smd_create_channel(struct qcom_smd_edge *ed free_name_and_channel: kfree(channel->name); +free_channel: kfree(channel); return ERR_PTR(ret); -- 2.17.1