If device_add() returns error, the name allocated by dev_set_name() need be freed. As comment of device_add() says, it should use put_device() to give up the reference in the error path. So fix this by calling put_device, then the name can be freed in kobject_cleanp(). Fixes: c8806b6c9e82 ("snic: driver for Cisco SCSI HBA") Signed-off-by: Zhu Wang <wangzhu9@xxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/scsi/snic/snic_disc.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/drivers/scsi/snic/snic_disc.c b/drivers/scsi/snic/snic_disc.c index 3e2e5783924d..e429ad23c396 100644 --- a/drivers/scsi/snic/snic_disc.c +++ b/drivers/scsi/snic/snic_disc.c @@ -303,6 +303,7 @@ snic_tgt_create(struct snic *snic, struct snic_tgt_id *tgtid) "Snic Tgt: device_add, with err = %d\n", ret); + put_device(&tgt->dev); put_device(&snic->shost->shost_gendev); spin_lock_irqsave(snic->shost->host_lock, flags); list_del(&tgt->list); -- 2.17.1