Here is implenmention of hpsa_sas_port_add_phy(): hpsa_sas_port_add_phy() ... sas_phy_add() -> may return error here sas_port_add_phy() ... Here is implenmention of hpsa_free_sas_phy(): hpsa_free_sas_phy() ... sas_port_delete_phy() sas_phy_delete() ... If hpsa_sas_port_add_phy() returns error, hpsa_free_sas_phy() can not be called free the memory, because the port and the phy have not been added yet. So replace it with sas_phy_free() and kfree() to avoid kernel crash in this case. Fixes: d04e62b9d63a ("hpsa: add in sas transport class") Signed-off-by: Yang Yingliang <yangyingliang@xxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/scsi/hpsa.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/scsi/hpsa.c b/drivers/scsi/hpsa.c index f8e832b1bc46..b3f195467e97 100644 --- a/drivers/scsi/hpsa.c +++ b/drivers/scsi/hpsa.c @@ -9786,7 +9786,8 @@ static int hpsa_add_sas_host(struct ctlr_info *h) return 0; free_sas_phy: - hpsa_free_sas_phy(hpsa_sas_phy); + sas_phy_free(hpsa_sas_phy->phy); + kfree(hpsa_sas_phy); free_sas_port: hpsa_free_sas_port(hpsa_sas_port); free_sas_node: -- 2.25.1