The "msh" pointer is device managed, meaning that memstick_alloc_host() calls device_initialize() on it. That means that it can't be free using kfree() but must instead be freed with memstick_free_host(). Otherwise it leads to a tiny memory leak of device resources. Fixes: 60fdd931d577 ("memstick: add support for JMicron jmb38x MemoryStick host controller") Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/memstick/host/jmb38x_ms.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/memstick/host/jmb38x_ms.c b/drivers/memstick/host/jmb38x_ms.c index a7a0f0caea15..21cb2a786058 100644 --- a/drivers/memstick/host/jmb38x_ms.c +++ b/drivers/memstick/host/jmb38x_ms.c @@ -882,7 +882,7 @@ static struct memstick_host *jmb38x_ms_alloc_host(struct jmb38x_ms *jm, int cnt) iounmap(host->addr); err_out_free: - kfree(msh); + memstick_free_host(msh); return NULL; } -- 2.20.1