Free memory, if afiucv_iucv_init is not successful. So calling put_device() before kfree(). This will decrement the last reference. Signed-off-by: Arvind Yadav <arvind.yadav.cs@xxxxxxxxx> --- changes in v2: Calling put_device() before kfree(). net/iucv/af_iucv.c | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/net/iucv/af_iucv.c b/net/iucv/af_iucv.c index 1e8cc7b..a07943f 100644 --- a/net/iucv/af_iucv.c +++ b/net/iucv/af_iucv.c @@ -2433,9 +2433,12 @@ static int afiucv_iucv_init(void) af_iucv_dev->driver = &af_iucv_driver; err = device_register(af_iucv_dev); if (err) - goto out_driver; + goto out_iucv_dev; return 0; +out_iucv_dev: + put_device(af_iucv_dev); + kfree(af_iucv_dev); out_driver: driver_unregister(&af_iucv_driver); out_iucv: -- 1.9.1 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-s390" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html