We've got a memory leak with the following producer: while true; do cat /sys/class/sas_phy/phy-1:0:12/invalid_dword_count >/dev/null; done The buffer req is allocated and not freed after we return. Fix it. Signed-off-by: Jason Yan <yanaijie@xxxxxxxxxx> CC: John Garry <john.garry@xxxxxxxxxx> CC: chenqilin <chenqilin2@xxxxxxxxxx> CC: chenxiang <chenxiang66@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/scsi/libsas/sas_expander.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/drivers/scsi/libsas/sas_expander.c b/drivers/scsi/libsas/sas_expander.c index 3183d63..4b0c67f 100644 --- a/drivers/scsi/libsas/sas_expander.c +++ b/drivers/scsi/libsas/sas_expander.c @@ -695,6 +695,7 @@ int sas_smp_get_phy_events(struct sas_phy *phy) phy->phy_reset_problem_count = scsi_to_u32(&resp[24]); out: + kfree(req); kfree(resp); return res; -- 2.9.5