From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> In the case where request_irq fails, the return path does not kfree clockevent and hence we have a memory leak. Fix this by kfree'ing clockevent before returning. Addresses-Coverity: ("Resource leak") Fixes: 721154f972aa ("clocksource/drivers/davinci: Add support for clockevents") Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/clocksource/timer-davinci.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/drivers/clocksource/timer-davinci.c b/drivers/clocksource/timer-davinci.c index 62745c962049..910d4d2f0d64 100644 --- a/drivers/clocksource/timer-davinci.c +++ b/drivers/clocksource/timer-davinci.c @@ -299,6 +299,7 @@ int __init davinci_timer_register(struct clk *clk, "clockevent/tim12", clockevent); if (rv) { pr_err("Unable to request the clockevent interrupt"); + kfree(clockevent); return rv; } -- 2.20.1