"unreferenced object 0xffff888117908420 (size 16): comm ""modprobe"", pid 18125, jiffies 4319017437 (age 73.039s) hex dump (first 16 bytes): 62 65 32 69 73 63 73 69 00 84 90 17 81 88 ff ff be2iscsi........ backtrace: [<00000000f78a13b3>] __kmem_cache_alloc_node+0x157/0x220 [<00000000200a51a4>] __kmalloc_node_track_caller+0x44/0x1b0 [<0000000033ea4d64>] kstrdup+0x3a/0x70 [<00000000ec6d2980>] kstrdup_const+0x41/0x60 [<0000000055015f6f>] kvasprintf_const+0xf5/0x180 [<000000009dd443d2>] kobject_set_name_vargs+0x56/0x150 [<00000000f3448e98>] dev_set_name+0xab/0xe0 [<0000000080ab8992>] iscsi_register_transport+0x1f8/0x610 [scsi_transport_iscsi] [<000000005e2c324d>] 0xffffffffc1260012 [<00000000df6e6a36>] do_one_initcall+0xcb/0x4d0 [<00000000181109df>] do_init_module+0x1ca/0x5f0 [<00000000b3c4fec8>] load_module+0x6133/0x70f0 [<00000000feb08394>] __do_sys_finit_module+0x12f/0x1c0 [<00000000ca6af44d>] do_syscall_64+0x37/0x90 [<00000000132e1a8b>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd" If device_register() returns error in iscsi_register_transport(), the name allocated by the dev_set_name() need be freed. Fix this by calling put_device(), the name will be freed in the kobject_cleanup(), and the priv will be freed in iscsi_transport_release. Signed-off-by: Zhou Guanghui <zhouguanghui1@xxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/scsi/scsi_transport_iscsi.c | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/scsi/scsi_transport_iscsi.c b/drivers/scsi/scsi_transport_iscsi.c index cd3db9684e52..51e2c0f5e2d0 100644 --- a/drivers/scsi/scsi_transport_iscsi.c +++ b/drivers/scsi/scsi_transport_iscsi.c @@ -4815,7 +4815,7 @@ iscsi_register_transport(struct iscsi_transport *tt) dev_set_name(&priv->dev, "%s", tt->name); err = device_register(&priv->dev); if (err) - goto free_priv; + goto put_dev; err = sysfs_create_group(&priv->dev.kobj, &iscsi_transport_group); if (err) @@ -4850,8 +4850,8 @@ iscsi_register_transport(struct iscsi_transport *tt) unregister_dev: device_unregister(&priv->dev); return NULL; -free_priv: - kfree(priv); +put_dev: + put_device(&priv->dev); return NULL; } EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(iscsi_register_transport); -- 2.17.1