In fault_opcodes_write(), 'data' is allocated through kcalloc(). However, it is not deallocated in the following execution if an error occurs, leading to memory leaks. To fix this issue, introduce the 'free_data' label to free 'data' before returning the error. Signed-off-by: Wenwen Wang <wenwen@xxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/infiniband/hw/hfi1/fault.c | 9 ++++++--- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/hw/hfi1/fault.c b/drivers/infiniband/hw/hfi1/fault.c index 93613e5..a999183 100644 --- a/drivers/infiniband/hw/hfi1/fault.c +++ b/drivers/infiniband/hw/hfi1/fault.c @@ -141,12 +141,14 @@ static ssize_t fault_opcodes_write(struct file *file, const char __user *buf, if (!data) return -ENOMEM; copy = min(len, datalen - 1); - if (copy_from_user(data, buf, copy)) - return -EFAULT; + if (copy_from_user(data, buf, copy)) { + ret = -EFAULT; + goto free_data; + } ret = debugfs_file_get(file->f_path.dentry); if (unlikely(ret)) - return ret; + goto free_data; ptr = data; token = ptr; for (ptr = data; *ptr; ptr = end + 1, token = ptr) { @@ -195,6 +197,7 @@ static ssize_t fault_opcodes_write(struct file *file, const char __user *buf, ret = len; debugfs_file_put(file->f_path.dentry); +free_data: kfree(data); return ret; } -- 2.7.4