From: Mark Zhang <markzhang@xxxxxxxxxx> In failure flow, the reference counter acquired was not released, and the following error was reported: drivers/infiniband/core/cm.c:3373 cm_lap_handler() warn: inconsistent refcounting 'cm_id_priv->refcount.refs.counter': Fixes: 7345201c3963 ("IB/cm: Improve the calling of cm_init_av_for_lap and cm_init_av_by_path") Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Mark Zhang <markzhang@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@xxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/infiniband/core/cm.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/core/cm.c b/drivers/infiniband/core/cm.c index c903b74f46a4..35f0d5e7533d 100644 --- a/drivers/infiniband/core/cm.c +++ b/drivers/infiniband/core/cm.c @@ -3322,7 +3322,7 @@ static int cm_lap_handler(struct cm_work *work) ret = cm_init_av_by_path(param->alternate_path, NULL, &alt_av); if (ret) { rdma_destroy_ah_attr(&ah_attr); - return -EINVAL; + goto deref; } spin_lock_irq(&cm_id_priv->lock); -- 2.34.1